Colonial genocide in indigenous North America / Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Laban Hinton, editors ; foreword by Theodore Fontaine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Woolford, Andrew John, 1971-

Benvenuto, Jeff, 1984-

Hinton, Alexander Laban.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Colonization.

Indians of North America.

Genocide--North America--History.

Genocide.

Off-reservation boarding schools--History.

Off-reservation boarding schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 344 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America.

Contents:

Discipline, territory, and the colonial mesh : indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada / Andrew Woolford

Global capital, violence, and the making of a colonial shatter zone / Robbie Ethridge

Genocide in Canada : a relational view / Christopher Powell and Julia Peristerakis

California and Oregon's Modoc Indians : how resistance camouflages genocide in colonial histories / Benjamin Madley

American folk imperialism and native genocide in Southwest Oregon, 1851-1859 / Gray H. Whaley

Memory, erasure, and national myth / Tricia E. Logan

Residential school harm and colonial dispossession : what's the connection? / Jeremy Patzer

The habit of elimination : indigenous child removal in settler colonial nations in the twentieth century / Margaret D. Jacobs

Revisiting Choctaw ethnocide and ethnogenesis : the creative destruction of colonial genocide / Jeff Benvenuto

Political genocide : killing nations through legislation and slow-moving poison / Kiera L. Ladner

Dispossession and Canadian land claims : genocidal implications of the Innu Nation land claim / Colin Samson

Colonial genocide and historical trauma in Native North America : complicating contemporary attributions / Joseph P. Gone

Buffalo genocide in nineteenth-century North America : "kill, skin, and sell" / Tasha Hubbard

Genocide in the Indian residential schools : Canadian history through the lens of the UN Genocide Convention / David B. MacDonald.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822357797

0822357798

9780822376149

0822376148

OCLC:

1141504606