Rifkin's work moves us toward a more expansive understanding of the ways in which collective memory, ceremonial practices, prophesy, oral traditions, and place- based knowledges inform Indigenous corpo-realities and shape quotidian experiences of synchronously felt pasts, presents, and futures. This text is a critical addition to Native American studies and should be read by all striving for a decolonial future.
Sarah Whitt
American Indian Quarterly
A quite brilliant work of theory. . . .
James Mackay
American Literary History
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'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
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