Colonial genocide in indigenous North America

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Colonial genocide in indigenous North America / Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Laban Hinton, editors ; foreword by Theodore Fontaine.

Woolford, Andrew John, 1971- (Added Author). Benvenuto, Jeff, 1984- (Added Author). Hinton, Alexander Laban. (Added Author).

Summary:

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these efforts through the lens of genocide. Considering some of the most destructive aspects of the colonization and subsequent settlement of North America, several essays address Indigenous boarding school systems imposed by both the Canadian and U.S. governments in attempts to "civilize" or "assimilate" Indigenous children. Contributors examine some of the most egregious assaults on Indigenous peoples and the natural environment, including massacres, land appropriation, the spread of disease, the near extinction of the buffalo, and forced political restructuring of Indigenous communities. Assessing the record of these appalling events, the contributors maintain that North Americans must reckon with colonial and settler colonial attempts to annihilate Indigenous peoples. -- Provided by Publisher --

Record details

ISBN: 9780822357636
ISBN: 0822357631
ISBN: 9780822357797
ISBN: 0822357798
Physical Description: x, 344 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: -- Discipline, territory, and the colonial mesh : indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada -- Andrew Woolford -- Global capital, violence, and the making of a colonial shatter zone -- Robbie Ethridge -- Genocide in Canada : a relational view -- Christopher Powell and Julia Peristerakis -- California and Oregon's Modoc Indians : how resistance camouflages genocide in colonial histories -- Benjamin Madley -- American folk imperialism and native genocide in Southwest Oregon, 1851-1859 -- Gray H. Whaley -- Memory, erasure, and national myth -- Tricia E. Logan -- Residential school harm and colonial dispossession : what's the connection? -- Jeremy Patzer -- The habit of elimination : indigenous child removal in settler colonial nations in the twentieth century -- Margaret D. Jacobs -- Revisiting Choctaw ethnocide and ethnogenesis : the creative destruction of colonial genocide -- Jeff Benvenuto -- Political genocide : killing nations through legislation and slow-moving poison -- Kiera L. Ladner -- Dispossession and Canadian land claims : genocidal implications of the Innu Nation land claim -- Colin Samson -- Colonial genocide and historical trauma in Native North America : complicating contemporary attributions -- Joseph P. Gone -- Buffalo genocide in nineteenth-century North America : "kill, skin, and sell" -- Tasha Hubbard -- Genocide in the Indian residential schools : Canadian history through the lens of the UN Genocide Convention -- David B. MacDonald.