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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California Davis Library.

Portions of chapter 3 were published in a different form in “Refusal/Film: Diasporic-Indigenous Relationalities,” Settler Colonial Studies 10, no. 1 (2020): 110–25; copyright 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group; available at https://www.tandfonline.com/.

Excerpt from Kaushalya Bannerji, “Oka Nada,” A New Remembrance: Poems (Toronto: TSAR, 1993), 20, reprinted by permission of the poet. Excerpts from Vivek Shraya, “amiskwacîwâskahikan” and “indian,” from even this page is white (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016), reprinted by permission. Excerpt from Rajinderpal S. Pal, “Collective Amnesia,” Rungh Magazine 4, no. 1–2 (1998): 25; reprinted by permission of the poet.

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