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Acts of rebellion : the Ward Churchill reader / Ward Churchill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 483 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203449517
  • 9780203449516
  • 9786610024957
  • 6610024952
  • 1135955034
  • 9781135955038
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Acts of rebellion.DDC classification:
  • 973.0497 22
LOC classification:
  • E93 .C58 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
"The law stood squarely on its head" -- The nullification of Native America? -- Confronting Columbus Day -- The earth is our mother -- A breach of trust -- Like sand in the wind -- The bloody wake of Alcatraz -- Fantasies of the master race -- Let's spread the "fun" around -- Indians 'R' us -- False promises -- The new face of liberation -- I am indigenist.
Summary: What could be more American than Columbus Day? Or the Washington Redskins? For Native Americans, they are bitter reminders that they live in a world where their identity is still fodder for white society. ""The law has always been used as toilet paper by the status quo where American Indians are concerned,"" writes Ward Churchill in Acts of Rebellion, a collection of his most important writings from the past twenty years. Vocal and incisive, Churchill stands at the forefront of American Indian concerns, from land issues to the American Indian Movement, from government repression to the histor.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-447) and index.

"The law stood squarely on its head" -- The nullification of Native America? -- Confronting Columbus Day -- The earth is our mother -- A breach of trust -- Like sand in the wind -- The bloody wake of Alcatraz -- Fantasies of the master race -- Let's spread the "fun" around -- Indians 'R' us -- False promises -- The new face of liberation -- I am indigenist.

Print version record.

What could be more American than Columbus Day? Or the Washington Redskins? For Native Americans, they are bitter reminders that they live in a world where their identity is still fodder for white society. ""The law has always been used as toilet paper by the status quo where American Indians are concerned,"" writes Ward Churchill in Acts of Rebellion, a collection of his most important writings from the past twenty years. Vocal and incisive, Churchill stands at the forefront of American Indian concerns, from land issues to the American Indian Movement, from government repression to the histor.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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