For an Amerindian Autohistory An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic

Name: For an Amerindian Autohistory An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic
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ISBN: 9780773509504

ISBN-10: 077350950X

ISBN-13: 9780773509504

Edition: 1992

Authors: George E. Sioui, Sheila Fischmann, George E. Sioui

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Sioui has produced a work not only of metahistory but of moral reflections. He contrasts Euroamerican ethnocentrism and feelings of racial superiority with the Amerindian belief in the "Great Circle of Life" and shows that human beings must establish intellectual and emotional connections with the entire living world if they hope to achieve abundance, quality, and peace for all. Sioui is proud to be a Huron and an Amerindian and is fully aware of the injustices that the aboriginal people of North America have suffered - and continue to suffer - at the hands of Euroamericans. He is convinced that the greatness of Amerindians does not lie only in the past but that Native peoples will play an…

Book details

List price: $100.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 10/8/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 152
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Disease Has Overcome the Devil



The Sacred Circle of Life



The Amerindian Idea of Being Human



The Destruction of Huronia



Lahontan: Discover of Americity



The Dispersal of the Wendat


Conclusion


Epilogue


Appendix: The Indian Problem: A Final Look


Notes