Eating fire, tasting blood : breaking the great silence of the American Indian Holocaust

Summary: A collection of essays by twenty American Indian writers from different nations and tribes that chronicle the history of their people.

Record details

ISBN: 1560258381
ISBN: 9781560258384
Physical Description: print
xvi, 406 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Permissions -- Introduction / MariJo Moore -- 1. manifest destiny : greed disguised as God -- A flood of tears and blood : and yet the Pope said Indians had souls / Eduardo Galeano -- The savages in the mirror : phantoms and fantasies in America / Paula Gunn Allen -- The name is half the game : the theft of "America" and indigenous claims of sovereignty / Jack D. Forbes -- Indians affairs : Hebrews 13:8 / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- 2. Sacred rites : suppressions and subsistence -- Christian civilization / Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman) -- Colonial fascinations : God save the-- oh, say, can you-- oh Canada / James Aronhiotas Stevens -- Speaking out : religious rights and imprisoned American Indian women / Laura E. Donaldson -- "I learned to preach pretty well, and to cuss, too" : Hopi acceptance and rejection of Christianity at Sherman Institute, 1906-1928 / Matthew T. Sakiestewa Gilbert -- Remembering : Atop Polacca on First Mesa / MariJo Moore -- 3. Propaganda : exposure and surveillance -- Indian nations and the American holocausts / Carter Revard -- Choctaw legacy : how to lose your country twice in fourteen treaties / Don L. Birchfield -- The Cherokee Nation : a colonial morality play in three acts / Steve Russell -- Weeds from the under world : the conquest of Tsenacomoco and Monascane / Jay Hansford C. Vest -- Washita, a slaughter, not a battle : a Cheyenne survivor's perspective / translated, edited and annotated by Eugene Blackbear, Sr., and Kimberly Roppolo -- Nicaragua : What's Ward Churchill got against you?" / David Seals --