Native North American resistance to genocide, ecocide, and colonization /
by Ward Churchill
460 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface / by Winona LaDuke -- Introduction / by Ward Churchill -- Part I: The law -- The tragedy and the travesty: the subversion of indigenous sovereignty in North America -- Part II: The land -- Struggle to regain a stolen homeland: Iroquois land rights in upstate New York -- The Black Hills are not for sale: the Lakota struggle for the 1868 treaty territory -- Genocide in Arizona: the "Navajo-Hopi land dispute" in perspective -- The struggle for Newe Segobia: the western Shoshone battle for their homeland -- Last stand at Lubicon Lake: genocide and ecocide in the Canadian north -- Part III: Other fronts -- Geographies of sacrifice: the radioactive colonization of native North America -- The water plot: hydorlogical rape in northern Canada -- Like sand in the wind: the making of an American Indian diaspora in the United States -- Part IV: An alternative -- I am indigenist: notes on the ideology of the fourth world -- Appendix: Treaty: The platform of Russell Means' campaign for President of the Oglala people, 1982 / by Russell Means and Ward Churchill
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This seminal book established Churchill as an intellectual force to be reckoned with in indigenous land rights debates. Required reading for anyone interested in Native North America and ecological justice. Revised and expanded edition. Ward Churchill (Keetowah Cherokee) has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues. He is a Professor of American Indian Studies, a leading member of AIM, and has been a delegate to the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations