Conquest : sexual violence and American Indian genocide / Andrea Smith ; foreword by Winona LaDuke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Andrea, 1966-

Contributor:

LaDuke, Winona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous women--Crimes against--North America.

Indigenous women.

Indigenous women--Colonization--North America.

Indigenous women--North America--Social conditions.

Indians, Treatment of--North America--History.

Indians, Treatment of.

Violence--North America.

Violence.

North America--Race relations.

North America.

North America--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 244 pages)

Other Title:

Sexual violence and American Indian genocide

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence -- perpetrated by the state and by society at large -- and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-Natives; environmental racism; and population control. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women -- the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and to survive rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence." -- Back cover.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Foreword / Winona LaDuke

Introduction

Sexual violence as a tool of genocide

Boarding school abuses and the case for reparations

Rape of the land

"Better dead than pregnant" : the colonization of Native womens' reproductive health

"Natural laboratories" : medical experimentation in Native communities

Spiritual appropriation as sexual violence

Anticolonial responses to gender violence

U.S. empire and the war against Native sovereignty

Endnotes

Resource guide

Index.

Notes:

Foreword statement of responsibility from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-229) and index.

Gustavus Myers Outstand Book Award, 2005

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822374817

0822374811

OCLC:

1139373718