Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, the authors of these papers demonstrate how to resist containment perpetrated by colonial narratives that erase Native peoples and epistemologies. Resisting colonial containment operates on multiple registers, as shown through these examples ranging from sixteenth-century Hawai‘i to mid-twentieth-century Detroit. Using a wider array of Indigenous sources—from material culture to Indigenous languages and practices to archival documents—results in more complex, accurate, and nuanced histories of political developments in the Hawaiian Kingdom, of treaty-making, of late-nineteenth-century reservation life, and of urban Indian communities. Importantly, several of these papers reveal the important role of Indigenous women, who are often left out of histories of politics and activism. Moreover, the authors illustrate that Indigenous histories continue to resonate today and into the future, thereby resisting the narrow colonial approach to confining Native peoples to the safety of the past.