Genocide of the mind : new Native American writing / edited by MariJo Moore ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, MariJo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Indians of North America--Biography.

Indians in popular culture--North America.

Indians in popular culture.

Indians as mascots--North America.

Indians as mascots.

American literature--Indian authors.

American literature.

North America.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 352 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, [2003]

Summary:

After five centuries of Eurocentrism, many people have little idea that Native American tribes still exist, or which traditions belong to what tribes. America's Indigenous peoples have been effectively stereotyped through different forms of media as spiritual gurus, pagan savages, Indian princesses, or pitiful burdens of society. Over the past decade however, there has been a rising movement to accurately describe Native cultures and histories. In particular, writers have begun to explore the experience of urban Indians -- individuals who live in two worlds struggling to preserve traditional Native values within the context of an ever-changing modern society. Genocide of the Mind is a moving and inspiring collection of essays that records the determination of people from over twenty-five different nations to bring the Native American experience into the 21st Century.

Contents:

pt. 1. Keeping the home fires burning in urban circles. To carry the fire home / Kathryn Lucci-Cooper

Blood flowing in two worlds / Mary Black Bonnet

Home : urban and reservation / Barbara Helen Hill

Indian in a strange land / Wiley Steve Thornton

Everyone needs someone / MariJo Moore

Unci (Grandmother) / Ben Geobe

From Brooklyn to the reservation : five poems / Maurice Kenny

pt. 2. Young American Indians : the need to reclaim identity. The genocide of a generation's identity / Gabriel Horn

We, the people : young American Indians reclaiming their identity / Lee Francis

Indians in the attic / Joel Waters

America's urban youth and the importance of remembering / Dave Stephenson

pt. 3. Native languages : where will they go from here? Song, poetry, and language : expression and perception / Simon J. Ortiz

X. Alatsep (written down) / Joseph Dandurand

Don't talk, don't live / Carol Snow Moon Bachofner

Iah enionkwatewennahton'se' : we will not lose our words / James Aronhiotas Stevens

The spirit of language / Neil McKay

A different rhythm / H. Lee Karalis

Names by which the spirits know us / Sean Lee Fahrlander

pt. 4. Indians as mascots : an issue to be resolved. Symbolic racism, history, and reality : the real problem with Indian mascots / Kimberly Roppolo

Indian as mascots : perpetuating the stereotype / Alfred Young Man

Invisible emblems : empty words and sacred honor / Steve Russell

pt. 5. Who we are, who we are not : memories, misconceptions, and modifications. Yellow Woman and a beauty of the spirit / Leslie Marmon Silko

She's nothing like we thought / Molly McGlennen

Manitowac : spirit place in Anishinaabe / Tim Hays

Pyramids, art, museum, and bones : some brief memories / David Bunn Martine

Identification pleas / Eric Gansworth

Raising the American Indian community house / Mifaunwy Shunatona Hines

The secret of breathing / Steve Elm

The Indians are alive / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

"Indians," solipsisms, and archetypal holocausts / Paula Gunn Allen

Buffalo medicine : an essay and a play / David Seals

Postcolonial hyperbaggage : a few poems of resistance and survival / Carter Revard

About American Indian Artists, Inc. / Diane Fraher.

ISBN:

1560255110

OCLC:

52720630