While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City,
Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous
marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of
Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism. Settler
City Limits addresses urban struggles involving Anishinabek, Cree,
Creek, Dakota, Flathead, Lakota, and Métis peoples. Collectively, these
studies showcase how Indigenous people in the city resist ongoing
processes of colonial dispossession and create spaces for themselves and
their families. Working at intersections of Indigenous studies, settler
colonial studies, urban studies, geography, and sociology, this book
examines how the historical and political conditions of settler
colonialism have shaped urban development in the Canadian Prairies and
American Great Plains. Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous
spaces and places, both in terms of the historical geographies of the
regions in which they are embedded and with respect to ongoing struggles
for land, life, and self-determination.