New Indians, old wars / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Historiography.

Indians of North America.

Indians, Treatment of--United States--History.

Indians, Treatment of.

Indians of North America--Public opinion.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

History.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiii, 226 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]

Summary:

Addressing Native American Studies' past, present, and future, 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.

Contents:

Introduction

To keep the plot moving

An aside : how do we know about literary Indians?

Warriors, still?

The pitfalls of telling tribal histories : Lewis and Clark, colonial diaries, and fool soldiers

Defensive, regulatory, and transformative functions of Indian studies

The struggle for cultural heritage

The ghosts of American history in art and literature

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-226).

ISBN:

9780252031663

0252031660

OCLC:

81916538

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