ISBN:
9781629633138
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (617 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.89699999999999
Schlagwort(e):
Indians of North America--Social conditions
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: "And Then They Build Monuments to You" -- Introduction: A Few Thoughts on a Book Long Overdue -- One: Remembering Bob Thomas -- His Influence on the American Indian Liberation Struggle -- Two: Subverting the Law of Nations -- American Indian Rights and U.S. Distortions of International Legality -- Three: The United States and the Genocide Convention -- A Half-Century of Obfuscation and Obstruction -- Four: Charades, Anyone? -- The Indian Claims Commission in Context -- Five: In the Spirit of Gunga Din -- A Response to John LaVelle -- Six: History in Service to Liberation -- Ron Welburn's Roanoke and Wampum -- Seven: Broadening Our View of the Penal Colony -- Luana Ross' Inventing the Savage -- Eight: Contours of Enlightenment -- Reflections on Science, Theology, Law, and the Alternative Vision of Vine Deloria Jr. -- Nine: Science as Psychosis -- An American Corollary to Germany's Blood Libel of the Jews -- Ten: American Indians in Film -- Thematic Contours of Cinematic Colonization -- Eleven: Distorted Images and Literary Appropriations -- Gretchen Bataille's Native American Representations -- Twelve: Finding a "Middle Place"? -- Not in Joni Adamson's American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism -- Thirteen: Kizhiibaabinesik -- A Bright Star, Burning Briefly -- Fourteen: The Ghosts of 9-1-1 -- Reflections on History, Justice and Roosting Chickens -- Fifteen: "To Judge Them by the Standards of Their Time" -- America's Indian Fighters, the Laws of War, and the Question of International Order -- Appendix: "Some People Push Back" -- On the Justice of Roosting Chickens -- About the Authors -- Index.
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