Territorializing Indigeneity and Powwow Markets
Keywords:
powwow, art markets, indigeneity, borders, Native, spaceAbstract
North American powwows are presented by organiz
ers and presumed by society at large to be Native events. Re
search has rarely considered the processes by which powwows
become places or the role of territorialization in that process.
This article examines the socio-spatial practices powwow or
ganizing committees employ to construct powwows and their
arts and crafts markets as places from undifferentiated space
and the responses to these practices. I suggest that powwow
committees construct powwow space as a form of sovereign
political space from which they can manage relations with mul
tiple constituencies and in which contemporary conceptions of
Nativeness are negotiated.
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