Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Decolonizing Freedom -- Noninterference, Nondomination, and Colonial Unknowing: Mis-Encounters with Indigenous Relational Freedom -- For Love of the World: Relational Freedom as Love of Land -- Dancing Resistance, Recreating the World: Philoxenic Relational Freedom -- Colonial Unknowing and Heterogeneous Relationalities: Alternative Formations of Power, Knowledge, and Freedom -- Indigenous Feminisms and Relational Rights -- Conclusion: Critical Theory and the Spirit of Freedom.

"In New York Harbour, at the entrance to the United States of America, stands the Statue of Liberty: Liberty Enlightening the World. Liberty stands as a beacon welcoming all to the land of the free, holding a torch and a tablet inscribed with the date of American Declaration of Independence. At her feet lies a broken chain. The ideal of freedom is celebrated as the definitive ideal of modern western civilization, and is exported to the world, often by force. Wars and invasions are justified with the claim that we must free the foreign people, whom we will then turn away at our borders. Many are excluded from the ideal of freedom: the American Declaration of Independence was signed by slave owners, and the land that was declared independent was stolen from Indigenous peoples. Indigenous lands and peoples around the world remain colonized, and the practice of Black slavery continues in practices of mass incarceration. The land of the free, like other "developed" nations, polices its borders to keep out unwanted foreigners. Walls are not really necessary. Worldwide, the freedom of some depends on the exploitation and oppression and exclusion of most of the world's people"-- Provided by publisher.