Indian GivenIn Indian Given Mara Josefina Saldaa Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaa Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for instance, how Chicanos as in the U. S. Mexico borderlands might affirm or reject their indigenous