Indigenous Inhumanities

California Indian Studies after the Apocalypse

Mark Minch-de LeonAuthor

A bold vision of Indigenous antihumanist survival and resurgence, Indigenous Inhumanities dismantles the colonial frameworks of inclusion, recognition, and representation that reinforce settler-state power. Envisioning an expanded poetics of resistance, Mark Minch-de Leon illuminates a path forward by following the radical turn the ancestors made toward the powers of the dead to bring an end to the colonial world.

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    The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges support for the open-access edition of this book from the University of California, Riverside.

    Excerpt from Dead Pioneers, “Bad Indian,” copyright 2023 Dead Pioneers; permission courtesy of Gregg Deal. Excerpts from Deborah Miranda’s “Correspondence,” in Indian Cartography, copyright 1999; “Old Territory. New Maps,” in Zen of La Llorona, copyright 2005; “San Francisco Bulletin, May 12, 1859” and “Los Pájaros,” in Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir; copyright 2013; used with permission from Deborah Miranda. Excerpts from Janice M. Gould’s “Blood Sisters,” in Earthquake Weather, copyright The University of Arizona Press, 1996; “Six Sonnets: Crossing the West,” in Doubters and Dreamers, copyright The University of Arizona Press, 2011; “Ancestors,” in This Music: A Poetic Prose Memoir (forthcoming); used with permission from the Literary Estate of Janice M. Gould.

    Portions of chapter 5 are adapted from “Atlas for a Destroyed World: Frank Day’s Painting as Work of Nonvital Revitalization,” in Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal 8, no. 1 (Spring 2021).

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