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ca-3493	Sturm, Circe	Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism: Lessons from Native North America	2017		.htm	text/html	3476	159	38	We can extend this list to include indigeneity as well, understood here not merely as a distinct racial, social, or cultural identity, but rather as an explicitly political subjectivity tied to the experience of living in the shadow of settler colonialism with an everyday sense of ongoing territorial invasion and dispossession (Rifkin 2009).2 By maintaining these distinctions in our analyses of modern forms of biopower and following their through line, if you will, we are able to recognize not only how such distinctions are used to target particular kinds of human beings for bare life but also how they condition other forms of sovereign violence, such as sexual violence in the case of gender, slavery in the case of race, and settler colonialism in the case of indigeneity (Simpson 2011).3 With indigeneity and settler colonialism as added lenses, we see that policies intent on social and political death, such as assimilation, missionization, relocation, allotment, termination, and even political incorporation via citizenship, were all designed to eliminate indigenous assertions of sovereignty over the land. Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism: Lessons from Native North America CIRCE STURM University of Texas at Austin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3300-7965 Any consideration of what sovereignty has come to mean in Native North America, as a conceptual framework that names a particular kind of lived indigenous experience, has to be understood within the context of settler colonialism.	cache/ca-3493.htm	txt/ca-3493.txt