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Unlearning the language of conquest : scholars expose anti-Indianism in America : deceptions that influence war and peace, civil liberties, public education, religion and spirituality, democratic ideals, the environment, law, literature, film, and happiness /
"Outstanding scholarship. ... Giant first steps towards the goal of providing a truthful and constructive understanding of indigenous worldviews."--Daniel R. Wildcat, Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies, Haskell Indian Nations University Responding to anti-Indianism in Ameri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: Red road, red lake
- red flag! / Four Arrows
- Introduction / Four Arrows
- Ch. 1. Happiness and indigenous wisdom in the history of the Americas / Frank Bracho
- Ch. 2. Adventures in denial: ideological resistance to the idea that the Iroquois helped shape American democracy / Bruce E. Johansen
- Ch. 3. Burning down the house: Laura Ingalls Wilder and American colonialism / Waziyatawin Angela Cavender Wilson
- Ch. 4. (Post) colonial plainsongs: toward native literary worldings / Jodi A. Byrd
- Ch. 5. Conquest masquerading as law / Vine Deloria Jr.
- Ch. 6. Traditional native justice: restoration and balance, not "punishment" / Rudy Al James (ThlauGooYailthThlee-the First and Oldest Raven)
- Ch. 7. Where are your women? Missing in action / Barbara Alice Mann
- Ch. 8. Peaceful versus warlike societies in pre-Columbian America: what do archaeology and anthropology tell us? / James DeMeo
- Ch. 9. Ecological evidence of large-scale silviculture by California Indians / Lee Klinger
- Ch. 10. Preserving the whole: principles of sustainability in Mi'kmaw forms of communication / Trudy Sable
- Ch. 11. The language of conquest and the loss of the commons / Chet Bowers
- Ch. 12. Overcoming hegemony in native studies programs / Devon A. Mihesuah
- Ch. 13. The question of whitewashing in American history and social science / David N. Gibbs
- Ch. 14. Before predator came: a plea for expanding First Nations scholarship as European shadow work / David Gabbard
- Ch. 15. Roy Rodgers, twin heroes, and the Christian doctrine of exclusive salvation / Four Arrows
- Ch. 16. Western science and the loss of natural creativity / Gregory Cajete
- Ch. 17. On the very idea of "a worldview" and of "alternative worldviews" / Bruce Wilshire
- Epilogue / Four Arrows
- Appendix. Essays from "The Encyclopedia of American History" by Four Arrows. The myth of the noble savage
- Indian education and social control
- American Indian worldviews and values.