Chapter 3. Peristerakis Genocide in Canada: A Relational View

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction. Jeff Benvenuto, Andrew Woolford, and Alexander Laban Hinton Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America 1
5. PART I. INTERSECTIONS AND TRAJECTORIES
6. Chapter 1. Discipline, Territory, and the Colonial Mesh: Indigenous Boarding Schools in the United States and Canada 29
7. Chapter 2. Global Capital, Violence, and the Making of a Colonial Shatter Zone 49
8. Chapter 3. Peristerakis Genocide in Canada: A Relational View 70
9. PART II. ERASURE AND LEGIBILITY
10. Chapter 4. California and Oregon’s Modoc Indians: How Indigenous Resistance Camouflages Genocide in Colonial Histories 95
11. Chapter 5. American Folk Imperialism and Native Genocide in Southwest Oregon, 1851–1859 131
12. Chapter 6. Memory, Erasure, and National Myth 149
13. Chapter 7. Residential School Harm and Colonial Dispossession: What’s the Connection? 166
14. PART III. TRANSFORMATIONS
15. Chapter 8. The Habit of Elimination: Indigenous Child Removal in Settler Colonial Nations in the Twentieth Century 189
16. Chapter 9. Revisiting Choctaw Ethnocide and Ethnogenesis: The Creative Destruction of Colonial Genocide 208
17. Chapter 10. Political Genocide: Killing Nations through Legislation and Slow-Moving Poison 226
18. Chapter 11. Dispossession and Canadian Land Claims: Genocidal Implications of the Innu Nation Land Claim 246
19. PART IV. (RE)IMAGININGS
20. Chapter 12. Colonial Genocide and Historical Trauma in Native North America: Complicating Contemporary Attributions 273
21. Chapter 13. Buffalo Genocide in Nineteenth-Century North America: “Kill, Skin, and Sell” 292
22. Chapter 14. Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools: Canadian History through the Lens of the UN Genocide Convention 306
23. Afterword.Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America: A View from Critical Genocide Studies 325
24. Contributors 333
25. Index 339