Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  xv
1. Indigenous Orientations  1
2. The Silence of Ely S. Parker  49
3. The Duration of the Land  95
4. Ghost Dancing at Century's End  129
Coda. Deferring Juridical Time  179
Notes  193
Bibliography  241
Index  269

"Rifkin offers the compelling argument that challenging normative settler time engenders new possibilities for Native articulations of futurity." — Stephanie Lumsden, Studies in American Indian Literatures

"Rifkin’s book presents a novel and ambitious perspective in analysing the process of land dispossession and forced assimilation of Native Americans during the consolidation of the U.S. national state in the nineteenth century and its afterlife." — Carolina Aguilera, Ethnic and Racial Studies

"Invoking the tool of (alternative) temporalities to examine Native and non-Native existence and the possibility of a successful, non-colonial co-existence is a fascinating move that disrupts the usual modes of examining Indigenous and non-Indigenous conversation and cultural differences." — Abigail Klassen, Canadian Journal of Native Studies

"By indicating for his readers ways in which we might begin to think of ourselves as inhabiting multiple temporalities, or as residing alongside others whose temporalities differ from our own, Rifkin seeks to make possible a kind of temporal equality." — Jill Stauffer, Law, Culture, and the Humanities

"Engages a fascinating combination of literary texts, legal decisions, legal policy and historical documents." — Krista L. Benson, Feminist Theory

"A theoretically robust and intellectually satisfying work that challenges readers to think differently not only about the past, but also about time. . . . A welcome addition to the robust body of interdisciplinary writing that has become renowned for its thick descriptions of space and place. . . . Rifkin’s approach is innovative, his analysis is theoretically sophisticated, the scaffolding upon which his analysis hangs is inspiring, and the vocabulary he advances is both useful and empowering." — Kieth Thor Carlson, American Historical Review

"Rifkin offers the compelling argument that challenging normative settler time engenders new possibilities for Native articulations of futurity." —Stephanie Lumsden, Studies in American Indian Literatures

"Rifkin’s book presents a novel and ambitious perspective in analysing the process of land dispossession and forced assimilation of Native Americans during the consolidation of the U.S. national state in the nineteenth century and its afterlife." —Carolina Aguilera, Ethnic and Racial Studies

"Invoking the tool of (alternative) temporalities to examine Native and non-Native existence and the possibility of a successful, non-colonial co-existence is a fascinating move that disrupts the usual modes of examining Indigenous and non-Indigenous conversation and cultural differences." —Abigail Klassen, Canadian Journal of Native Studies

"By indicating for his readers ways in which we might begin to think of ourselves as inhabiting multiple temporalities, or as residing alongside others whose temporalities differ from our own, Rifkin seeks to make possible a kind of temporal equality." —Jill Stauffer, Law, Culture, and the Humanities

"Engages a fascinating combination of literary texts, legal decisions, legal policy and historical documents." —Krista L. Benson, Feminist Theory

"A theoretically robust and intellectually satisfying work that challenges readers to think differently not only about the past, but also about time. . . . A welcome addition to the robust body of interdisciplinary writing that has become renowned for its thick descriptions of space and place. . . . Rifkin’s approach is innovative, his analysis is theoretically sophisticated, the scaffolding upon which his analysis hangs is inspiring, and the vocabulary he advances is both useful and empowering." —Kieth Thor Carlson, American Historical Review

"Mark Rifkin's compelling book breaks new grounds and new temporalities, serving to further illuminate the ways that settler colonialism structures the political and everyday life of Indigenous peoples in the United States. As with Rifkin's previous work, Beyond Settler Time is a must-read for those in Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and queer studies." — Mishuana Goeman, author of, Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations

"Beyond Settler Time is a magnificent book. Already at the very top of his field, Mark Rifkin clarifies with depth and lucidity how Native American genocide was achieved through the violent imposition of settler time, while showing us how to conceptualize temporalities based in the Native American experience without resorting to models of tradition or modernity. His phenomenological approach, combined with historical rigor, careful readings of aesthetic and documentary texts, and astute political analysis, makes for a very illuminating read." — Elizabeth Freeman, author of, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

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