Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology.
Belying that notion, Mohawk Interruptus calls for and demonstrates more robust and evenhanded forms of inquiry into indigenous politics in the teeth of Settler governance..
Finally, Simpson critiques anthropologists and Political scientists, whom, she argues, have too readily accepted the assumption that the colonial project is complete.
Tracing the implications of refusal, Simpson argues that one sovereign Political order can exist nested within a sovereign state, albeit with enormous tension around issues of jurisdiction and legitimacy.
Audra Simpson thinks through this politics of refusal, which stands in stark contrast to the politics of cultural recognition.
Like many Iroquois peoples, they insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship.
The Kahnaw ke Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy.
Combining Political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnaw ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain Political sovereignty through centuries of Settler colonialism.
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology
