Indigeneity across borders: Hemispheric migrations and cosmopolitan encounters

摘要: The increasing migration of indigenous people from Latin America to the United States signals a new horizon for study indigeneity—complexly understood as subjectivities, knowledge, and practices earliest human inhabitants particular place including legal racial identities that refer these people. Focusing on San Francisco, California, I explore how government, service providers, community organizations respond arrival ethnic groups while also contributing an expanding Urban Indian collective identity. In addition reviewing such governmental creation census categories related responses diversity, illustrate some members diverse population unite through participation in rituals Maya Waqxaqi’ B’atz’ (Day Human Perfection), transplanted Francisco Guatemala. recall homelands near far broader social imagination about being belonging world. imagination, borne part diaspora, acknowledges local framework shared values what it means be human. analyze this meaning making cosmopolitanism practice. By merging indigeneity cosmopolitanism, join other scholars who strive decenter classical notions cosmopolitan “worldliness,” drawing attention alternative sources beneficent sociality cultivating humanity.