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Dian Million, Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights

Introducing Therapeutic Nations, American Indian Studies Professor Dian Million describes her work as a “convoluted undertaking” that explores “what ‘power’ is in our times” (3). She offers readers a history of the present through an analysis of the political processes through which the “colonized subject became a victim of historical trauma” (3). Million contextualizes these processes within the emergence of post–World War II International Human Rights law, globalized capitalist expansion, neo-liberal governance, international development programs, Western academic theories, and Indigenous decolonization movements. In particular, Million’s work is informed by, and seeks to be accountable to, Indigenous feminist activism in communities, political organizations, and academies. It is within this context that Million addresses a central problematic: “ . . . the international law that enables Indigenous trauma to appeal for justice is the same sphere in which we articulate political rights as polities with rights to self-determination. I don’t see these as necessarily compatible projects” (3). The book proceeds to explore the potential political consequences of this incompatibility. This is no simple task. Among Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and activists alike, conflicting visions of how the future could or should unfold are currently in debate. The book does, indeed, meticulously document complex entanglements and relationships, and one of Therapeutic Nations’ significant contributions is a comprehensive analysis that rejects indulging in either hypertheorizing or utopian romanticizing. Million succeeds in communicating her subject provocatively in reader-friendly language.