and shows how non-indigenous communities uniquely deploy Native identities in the direct construction of colonial geographies

all with a deep and tenacious bond to the land

Made up of four sections

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From Wovoka

Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance Seminole and shows how non-indigenous communitiesDesignated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict between ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states' rights advocates, and Native American activists. In this volume, Andrew Gulliford synthesizes 11,000 years of the region's history to illuminate what's truly at stake in this conflict. The book distills this