Unlearning the Language of Conquest Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America

Name: Unlearning the Language of Conquest Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America
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ISBN: 9780292713260

ISBN-10: 0292713266

ISBN-13: 9780292713260

Edition: 2006

Authors: Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs), Four Arrows Staff

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"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 America, the wide-ranging perspectives culled in Unlearning the Language of Conquest present a provocative account of the contemporary hegemony still at work today, whether conscious or unconscious. Four Arrows has gathered a rich collection of voices and topics, including: Waziyatawin Angela Cavender Wilson's "Burning Down the House: Laura Ingalls Wilder and American Colonialism," which probes the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.97" wide x 8.99" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Editor's Note on Chief Seathl's Speech


Acknowledgments


Prologue: Red Road, Red Lake-Red Flag! Four Arrows


Introduction



Happiness and Indigenous Wisdom in the History of the Americas




Adventures in Denial: Ideological Resistance to the Idea That the Iroquois Helped Shape American Democracy




Burning Down the House: Laura Ingalls Wilder and American Colonialism




(Post) Colonial Plainsongs: Toward Native Literary Worldings




Conquest Masquerading as Law




Traditional Native Justice: Restoration and Balance, Not "Punishment"




Where are Your Women? Missing in Action




Peaceful Versus Warlike Societies in Pre-Columbian America: What Do Archaeology and Anthropology Tell Us?




Ecological Evidence of Large-Scale Silviculture By California Indians




Preserving the Whole: Principles of Sustainability in Mi'kmaw Forms of Communication




The Language of Conquest and the Loss of the Commons




Overcoming Hegemony in Native Studies Programs




The Question of Whitewashing in American History and Social Science




Before Predator Came: A Plea for Expanding First Nations Scholarship as European Shadow Work




Roy Rogers, Twin Heroes, and the Christian Doctrine of Exclusive Salvation



Western Science and the Loss of Natural Creativity




On the Very Idea of "A Worldview" and of "Alternative Worldviews"



Epilogue



Essays from The Encyclopedia of American Indian History


"The Myth of the Noble Savage"


"Indian Education and Social Control"


"American Indian Worldviews and Values"


Index