Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

Excellent ethnographic research! Dr. Simpson’s work is a fresh and life-giving breath! Definitely a part of the new Indigenous canon.

Amazing work. Perhaps the most important text to read for any aspiring Anthropologist, or any who wish to study the First Nations, or any indigenous people.

Good read with some personal accounts of native life and the struggles faced on a daily basis. Would recommend.

I think clearly this is a critical work to think about refusal and how refusal is taken up both by scholars (as in "ethnographic refusal" which ought to be taught waaaaay more often in methods and ethics courses like why don't we talk about that more??) but also as a way of Indigenous politics that is really worth thinking about. I think for NN folks, this is definitely worth thinking about borders and recognition/refusal, and in thinking about what constitutes sovereignty and recognizable sovereignty. I will probably be returning to this at some point, because it's such a critical work and some of it was fairly dense, but I do think it has so much to contribute in terms of thinking about mobility and its limits.

Simpson eloquently and with much force lays out the issues of settler colonialism and the effects of on-going colonialism in her community. It is an exemplary book for it methodology and intervention in the field of anthropology, Haudenosaunee Studies, and in Indigenous Studies broadly conceived. Gate keepers should keep an open mind and perhaps learn something from her brilliant approach for thinking through ethnography and working with Indigenous peoples in asymmetrical relations of power. Native and Non-Native academics and Indigenous communities alike will find the style engaging.

Book balances high theory with first-hand experience and personal insight. Helps readers understand questions of sovereignty, borders, and the ongoing politics of colonization from a native perspective.

Loved this book. I ordered it for a class, but would definitely recommend for anyone’s library. Simpson provides such a nuanced perspective to anthropological inquiry and the ways that colonialism has been supported within academia. They speak about writing from a place of refusal and that will stick with me throughout my educational journey

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