From a native son : selected essays in indigenism, 1985-1995

Churchill, Ward. (Author).

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ISBN: 0896085538 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780896085534 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0896085546 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780896085541 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xix, 588 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : South End Press, c1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Howard Zinn -- Deconstructing the Columbus myth: was the "great discoverer" Italian or Spanish, Nazi or Jew? -- Since predator came: a survey of native North America -- The earth is our mother: struggles for American Indian land and liberation in the contemporary United States -- Genocide in Arizona?: the "Navajo-Hopi land dispute" in perspective -- Native North America: the political economy of radioactive colonialism, with Winona LaDuke -- Like sand in the wind: the making of an American Indian diaspora in the United States -- Death squads in the United States: confessions of a government terrorist -- White studies: the intellectual imperialism of U.S. higher education -- Literature and the colonization of American Indians -- A little matter of genocide: colonialism and the expropriation of indigenous spiritual tradition in academia -- Another dry white season: Jerry Mander's In the Absence of the Sacred -- Spiritual Hucksterism: the rise of the plastic medicine men -- Indians "R" us: reflections on the "men's movement" -- Fantasies of the master race: categories of stereotyping American Indians in film -- Lawrence of South Dakota: Dances with Wolves and the maintenance of the American empire -- And they did it like dogs in the dirt ... an indigenist analysis of Black Robe -- Let's spread the "fun" around: the issue of sports team names and mascots -- In the matter of Julius Streicher: applying Nuremberg standards to the United States -- Semantic masturbation on the left: a barrier to unity and action -- False promises: an indigenist perspective on Marxist theory and practice -- Nobody's pet poodle: Jimmie Durham, an artist for native North America -- Another vision of America: Simon J. Ortiz's From Sand Creek -- I am indigenist: notes on the ideology of the fourth world -- Works by author, 1980-1996.