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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450204903321

Autore

Churchill Ward

Titolo

Acts of rebellion : the Ward Churchill reader / / Ward Churchill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-95503-4

1-280-02495-X

0-203-44951-7

0-415-93156-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (506 p.)

Disciplina

305.897073

973.0497

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Government relations

Indians of North America - Social conditions

Indians of North America - Land tenure

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I IN MATTERS OF LAW; PART II STRUGGLES FOR LANDS AND LIVES; PART III CULTURE WARS; PART IV THE INDIGENIST ALTERNATIVE

Sommario/riassunto

What could be more American than Columbus Day? Or the Washington Redskins? For Native Americans, they are bitter reminders that they live in a world where their identity is still fodder for white society.  ""The law has always been used as toilet paper by the status quo where American Indians are concerned,"" writes Ward Churchill in Acts of Rebellion, a collection of his most important writings from the past twenty years. Vocal and incisive, Churchill stands at the forefront of American Indian concerns, from land issues to the American Indian Movement, from government repression to the histor