Competing Voices from Native America

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Competing Voices from Native America Fighting Words

Joy Porter, Dewi Ioan Ball

Book Code: GWP016

ISBN: 1-84645-016-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-84645-016-7

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328 pages

Greenwood World Publishing

Publication: 2/28/2009

UK Publication: 30/10/2008

List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £30.00)

Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 2/28/2009)

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 x 9

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Series Title: Fighting Words

Description: Not restricted to writings about specifically military conflict, the anthology takes in 'fighting words' - of both Natives and non-Natives in the United States - on a range of conflicts and bitterly-contested issues involving Native American experiences and rights, from the period of 'discovery', through the colonial era and the Indian wars, via the federal developments in policy in the 19th and 20th centuries, to the present day, with its ongoing disputes, such as the bitter argument over political prisoner Leonard Peltier or the struggle between Natives and non-Natives over law, jurisdiction and gaming in Indian Country. Deploying a wide variety of sources, including newspaper reports, congressional documents, government documents and Indian tribal sources, the anthology is divided into chapters, each of which highlights a conflict or controversy, giving the opposing views of Native Americans and non-Native Americans. Key issues explored in this way include spirituality, the appropriate human relationship to nature and land, the sustained period of conflict in Indian country from 1676 to the beginning of the nineteenth century, Indian Removal, the events at Sand Creek (1864), Little Big Horn (1876) and Wounded Knee (1890), the reform from the time of the Meriam Act to the onset of World War II, the termination of the federal trusteeship relationship of the U.S. government and Indian peoples, case of activist Leonard Peltier in the 1970s, major recent developments concerning Indian law and jurisdiction on and off reservations, gaming and Indian economic, political and cultural concerns, and the rights to represent, speak for or about Native American Indians rage on campuses, within museums, and within American cultural life generally.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Competing Voices on the origins of the world and "Discovery "
Chapter 2: Competing Voices on Spirituality and Faith, 1550- 1828
Chapter 3: Competing Voices on Land and the Environment
Chapter 4: Competing Voices in War and Revolution, 1650-1800s
Chapter 5: Competing Voices in the Removal Era, 1800s- 1850s
Chapter 6: Competing Voices from Three Key Events in Western Expansion
Chapter 7: Competing Voices in the Era of Assimilation and Allotment, 1887-1934
Chapter 8: Competing Voices during the Indian New Deal Era, 1928-1941
Chapter 9: Competing Voices during the Termination Era, 1945 - 1970
Chapter 10: Competing Voices from Three Key Events of the Red Power Era: Alcatraz, 1969, March on Washington, 1972 and the Occupation of the BIA Headquarters, 1972 and Wounded Knee, 1973
Chapter 11: Competing Voices on Leonard Peltier, 1977
Chapter 12: Competing Voices on Contemporary Indian Law and Jurisdiction
Chapter 13: Competing Voices on Indian Gaming
Chapter 14: Competing Voices on Indian Representation, Museums and the Repatriation of Indian Bones

PDF Catalogs:
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