Confronting Colonial Legacies A History of Chicana/O Indigeneities and Transnational Activism

"Grounded in complex histories of Indigenous Chicanas/os' engagement in concrete political struggles over land and life, Serrano Nájera offers a well-researched and sophisticated challenge to simplistic narratives of cultural appropriation. In doing so, he provides an insightful contribution that foregrounds how claims of Chicana/o indigeneity have been rooted in the building and sustaining of reciprocal relations of solidarity and ceremony between Chicana/o and Indigenous communities. With a focus on hemispheric struggles for land and human rights, Serrano Nájera brings attention to Chicano-Native relations in practice from Wounded Knee and Tierra Amarilla to the halls of the United Nations and across Abya Yala."-Roberto D. Hernández, author of Coloniality of the US/Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative