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Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya´s Earth

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Description for Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya´s Earth Paperback. A powerful Native American voice speaking on the overlooked injustices that should concern us all Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL9; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.

Addressing Native American studies past, present, and future, the essays in New Indians, Old Wars tackle the discipline head-on, presenting a radical revision of the popular view of the American West in the process. Instead of luxuriating in the West's past glories or accepting the widespread historians' view of it as a shared place, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn argues that the American West should be fundamentally understood as stolen.

Cook-Lynn says that the Indian Wars of Resistance to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonial effort to seize native lands and resources must be given standing in the face of the ever-growing imperial narrative ... Read more

Cook-Lynn understands that the story of the American West teaches the political language of land theft and tyranny. She argues that to remedy this situation, Native American studies must be considered and pursued as its own discipline, rather than as a subset of history or anthropology. She makes an impassioned claim that such a shift, not merely an institutional or theoretical change, could allow Native American studies to play an important role in defending the sovereignty of indigenous nations today.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252074271
SKU
V9780252074271
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99-1

About Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930–2023) was a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and a writer, poet, and professor emerita of Native American studies at Eastern Washington University. She was the author of many books, including Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy and New Indians, Old Wars, and the coauthor of The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for ... Read more

Reviews for Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya´s Earth
“With this set of incisive essays, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confirms her status as the most insightful Indian essayist of our time. Displaying an incredible breadth of knowledge in a variety of fields, she examines some of the most controversial issues in American Indian studies.”
Vine Deloria Jr., Pacific Historical Quarterly "Reflects on the themes of nationalism, anti-Indianism, and genocide denial through a ... Read more

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