New Indians, Old Wars - Couverture rigide

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252031660 ISBN 13 : 9780252031663

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2007

Synopsis

Challenging received American history and forging a new path for Native American studies

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 its past glories or accepting the widespread historians' view of the West as a shared place, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn argues that it should be fundamentally understood as stolen.

Firmly grounded in the reality of a painful past, Cook-Lynn understands the story of the American West as teaching 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 Anti-Indianism in Modern America, and the coauthor of The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252031660
• ISBN 13: 9780252031663
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
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