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Donald Fixico - Call for Change - 9780803243569 - V9780803243569
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Call for Change

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Description for Call for Change Paves the way for historians to better understand Native peoples and their communities through the eyes and experiences of Indians themselves Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 diagrams. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.

For too many years, the academic discipline of history has ignored American Indians or lacked the kind of open-minded thinking necessary to truly understand them. Most historians remain oriented toward the American experience at the expense of the Native experience. As a result, both the status and the quality of Native American history have suffered and remain marginalized within the discipline. In this impassioned work, noted historian Donald L. Fixico challenges academic historians—and everyone else—to change this way of thinking. Fixico argues that the current discipline and practice of American Indian history are insensitive to and inconsistent with Native people’s ... Read more

He offers the “Medicine Way” as a paradigm to see both history and the current world through a Native lens. This new approach paves the way for historians to better understand Native peoples and their communities through the eyes and experiences of Indians, thus reflecting an insightful indigenous historical ethos and reality.

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Product Details

Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803243569
SKU
V9780803243569
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About Donald Fixico
Donald L. Fixico is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty of American Indian studies, and Affiliate Faculty in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books, including The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge and The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: ... Read more

Reviews for Call for Change
"A survey of recent works on Indian history, especially popular history, suggests that Fixico is correct in calling for a change now. Fixico's insightful book is a good place to start."—Mark A. Eifler, Great Plains Quarterly “Donald Fixico challenges scholars of American and Indian history to revise their thinking, enlarge their ‘seeing,’ and engage in an effort to understand Native ... Read more

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