While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism.
Settler City Limits addresses urban struggles involving Anishinabek, Cree, Creek, Dakota, Flathead, Lakota, and M tis peoples.
Collectively, these studies showcase how Indigenous people in the city resist ongoing processes of colonial dispossession and create spaces for themselves and their families.
Working at intersections of Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, urban studies, geography, and sociology, this book examines how the historical and political conditions of settler colonialism have shaped urban development in the Canadian Prairies and American Great Plains.
Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous spaces and places, both in terms of the historical geographies of the regions in which they are embedded and with respect to ongoing struggles for land, life, and self-determination.
About the Author Heather Dorries is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto.
Robert Henry teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary.
David Hugill teaches in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University.
Tyler Mc Creary teaches in the Department of Geography at Florida State University.
Julie Tomiak teaches in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University.
Michigan State University Press Settler city limits: indigenous resurgence and colonial violence in the urban prairie west, paperback/heather dorries
