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284 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSwhile Leona Capeless edited the manuscript with a subtle but certain touch.In addition, Karen Wolny, Scott Lenz, and Laura Brown at Oxford weremost helpful at critical moments when the manuscript was being turnedinto a book.The research and writing of a book such as this is at times an emotionallydraining experience. No one is more aware of that fact than my companionthroughout the ordeal-and for most of the preceding decade­Haunani-Kay Trask. A politically engaged scholar on the subjects of feministtheory, colonialism, and the contemporary struggles of indigenouspeoples, as well as a native woman whose own people were almost renderedextinct within a century following their first contact with the West,her critical readings of the manuscript were of course invaluable. But morethan that, the examples of her and her people's ongoing resistance to postcolonialoppression-and the innumerable hours of conversation we haveshared on and around the general topic of this book-have been its primaryand deepest inspiration.