Situating colonial and postcolonial studies -- Indigeneity as a category of analysis -- A new understanding of a specific historical event within the colonial paradigm -- Eliminationism -- On "looking westward" -- Law: the task of justification -- Just a thought -- Citizen! Citizen! -- The cynical tourist -- What about violence? -- The politics of misogyny -- The dilemma of language and the art of political persuasion -- Balancing acts for academic risk takers -- Taku Inichiapi? What's in a name? -- Case study 1: the assault on a nation through the political applications of colonization (1888) -- Case study 2: the dismissal of a people from the Dakota prairie: a case of literary genocide (1920-1930) -- Is now the moment? -- State governmental power versus tribal nation autonomy.
Summary:
"Essays questioning the academic notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of American Indian communities. Argues that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world; revises the popular view of the American West and explores the forgotten history of Indigenousness in America"--Provided by publisher.
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