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New Indians, old wars / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.
Addressing Native American studies' past, present, and future, the essays in [this book] 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. [The author] understands the story of the American West 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.-Dust jacket.
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- ISBN: 9780252031663 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0252031660 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xiii, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-226).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- To keep the plot moving -- An aside : how do we know about literary Indians? -- Warriors, still? -- The pitfalls of telling tribal histories : Lewis and Clark, colonial diaries, and fool soldiers -- Defensive, regulatory, and transformative functions of Indian studies -- The struggle for cultural heritage -- The ghosts of American history in art and literature.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | E 76.8 .C66 2007 | 279024 | Stacks | Available | - |
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