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

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Eating fire, tasting blood : breaking the great silence of the American Indian Holocaust / edited and with an introduction by MariJo Moore.

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: 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 --

4. Matriarchy : where were/are the women in all of this? -- One dress to walk 800 miles / Pamela J. Kingfisher -- Fire / Linda Hogan -- One woman can make a grand difference / Lela Northcross Wakely -- Winyan Wakan (Sacred woman) / Mary Black Bonnet -- From Wasouk to Shoah and back : a Mi'kmaq honor song / Alice M. Azure -- In each trace of footstep : the constant song of SpiritMemory / Inés Hernández-Ávila -- 5. At this moment : reviving the space between then and when? -- American heritage / Eric Gansworth -- Looking to the past to find the future / Yufna Soldier Wolf -- Resilience and responsibility : surviving the new genocide / Shaunna Oteka McCovey -- Majesties lost / Alfred Young Man -- When the true ending began / Joseph A. Dandurand -- So our children will know / Clifford E. Trafzer --

6. Remembering and never forgetting : the firestorm in between -- Performing nation, performing identity : American Indian storytelling, poetry, and song in practice (thoughts on cultural survival in the wake of the new Indian Wars) / Carolyn Dunn and Cindi Alvitre -- jumping through the hoops of history (for columbus, custer, sheridan, wayne, and all such heroes of yesteryear) / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Long time gone cradleboard song / Dawn Karima Pettigrew -- Japanese gardens / Joel Waters -- All my ancestors have blisters on their toes / Sara Sutler-Cohen -- Lady in turtleneck / Shirley Brozzo -- Invisibility lessons #1 and #2 / Drucilla Mims Wall -- Giveaway (in gratitude for all of it : theft, smallpox, relocation and denial.) Wido / Kim Shuck -- I dreamt the world was round / Nakesha Bradley -- To tell our side / Rita Joe -- Apprentices to justice / Kimberley Blaeser -- Finding Carrie : reaffirming identity through blood, beads, and bones / Kathryn Lucci Cooper -- Contributors -- About the editor -- Index.