This volume explores broad conceptual questions raised by the 'discovery' of indigenous peoples as increasingly important global political actors - questions made all the more urgent by the sudden recognition that indigenous diplomacies are not at all new, but merely newly noticed.

"This collection of brilliant, scholarly essays adds a necessary dimension to the study of International Relations that greatly enriches that field of study. As well, the essays move Indigenous diplomatic activities - precolonial to the present - from margin to center." - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,Professor Emeritus, California State University, and author of Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self Determination and Roots of Resistance: History of Land Tenure in New Mexico

Autorentext
Marshall Beier is Associate Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.

Inhalt
Indigenous Diplomacies as Indigenous Diplomacies; J.Marshall Beier Forgetting, Remembering, and Finding Indigenous Peoples in International Relations; J.Marshall Beier Communication/Excommunication: Transversal Indigenous Diplomacies in Global Politics; N.Soguk The Political Stakes of Indigenous Diplomacies: Questions of Difference; M.F.N.Franke Indigenous Diplomacies Before the Nation-State; R.de Costa A 'Revolution Within a Revolution': Indigenous Women's Diplomacies; L.Parisi & J.Corntassel Achievements of Indigenous Self-Determination: The Case of Sami Parliaments in Finland and Norway; R.Kuokkanen Coming in From the Cold: Inuit Diplomacy and Global Citizenship; F.Abele & T.Rodon Between the Leader of Virtù and the Good Savage: Indigenous Struggles and Life Projects in the Amazon Basin; M.V.Gonçalves Aboriginal Diplomacy: The Queen Comes to Canada and Coyote Goes to London; K.T.Carlson Inuit Transnational Activism: Cooperation and Resistance in the Face of Global Change; H.A.Smith& G.N.Wilson Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit: Beginning an Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation Dialogue; F.Wilmer Responding to a Deeply Bifurcated World: Indigenous Diplomacies in the 21st Century; M.Stewart-Harawira