New Indians, Old Wars

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New Indians, Old Wars

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The essays in “New Indians, Old Wars” tackle the discipline head-on, presenting a radical revision of the popular view of the American West in the process. Instead of luxuriating in its past glories or accepting the widespread historians’ view of the West as a shared place, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn argues that it should be fundamentally understood as stolen. Firmly grounded in the reality of a painful past, Cook-Lynn understands the story of the American West as teaching the political language of land theft and tyranny. She argues that to remedy this situation, Native American studies must be considered and pursued as its own discipline, rather than as a subset of history or anthropology. She makes an impassioned claim that such a shift, not merely an institutional or theoretical change, could allow Native American studies to play an important role in defending the sovereignty of indigenous nations today.

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Author: Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth
Year: 2007
ISBN: 9780252031663
Pages: 225
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publisher's city: Chicago
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