In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. Through their rich and detailed narrative, we learn not only about the history of the Maasai as they understand it, but also about the relations between politics and Western history; about the untold history of Kenya both pre- and post-nationhood; about why the creation of nation-states is not synonymous with liberation; and about how and why Indigenous approaches to land obstruct global processes of resource extraction. All of this finds wider resonances that upend received narratives of post-"independence" Africa and offer new opportunities for the emancipation of Indigenous communities from neo-colonial regimes the world over. Theebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

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Meitamei Olol Dapash is a nationally recognized leader of the Indigenous Maasai community in Kenya, as well as Director of the Institute for Maasai Education, Research & Conservation, Talek, Kenya. He is also the co founder, with Mary Poole, of the Dopoi Center for community organizing and education, near Talek, Kenya. Mary Poole is a Chair of Social Justice Studies, Prescot College, USA. She has collaborated for 20 years with Meitamei Dapash to reconstruct Maasai history and support Maasai land-rights activism.

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"Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. For its groundbreaking new insights into Maasai history and its bold interventions into Indigenous studies more broadly, Decolonizing Maasai History is a must-read for scholars and students of African studies and Indigenous studies, as well as for Maasai and other Indigenous peoples fighting for decolonization"--

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Introduction
Chapter 1: Maasai History and the Strategies of Neocolonialism
Chapter 2: Kenyamal Enkop: The History of Maasailand Occupation
Chapter 3: Melo Enkop: The Story of Mau Narok
Chapter 4: Amboseli: The Past and Future of Conservation in Maasailand
Chapter 5: Olosho Le Maa and the Long Century of Anti-Colonial Resistance
Conclusion: Entisere (the Future)
Bibliography
Index