For an Amerindian autohistory : an essay on the foundations of a social ethic / Georges E. Sioui ; translated from the French by Sheila Fischman ; foreword by Bruce G. Trigger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sioui, Georges E., 1948-

Series:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 9.

McGill-Queen's native and northern series, 1181-7453 ; 9

Standardized Title:

Pour une autohistoire amérindienne. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wyandot Indians--History.

Wyandot Indians.

Wyandot Indians--Ethnic identity.

Wyandot philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Pour une autohistoire amérindienne.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sioui has produced a work not only of metahistory but of moral reflections. He contrasts Euroamerican ethnocentrism and feelings of racial superiority with the Amerindian belief in the "Great Circle of Life" and shows that human beings must establish intellectual and emotional connections with the entire living world if they hope to achieve abundance, quality, and peace for all. Sioui is proud to be a Huron and an Amerindian and is fully aware of the injustices that the aboriginal people of North America have suffered - and continue to suffer - at the hands of Euroamericans. He is convinced that the greatness of Amerindians does not lie only in the past but that Native peoples will play an even more important role in the future by providing ideas essential to creating aviable way of life for North America and the world. While this is a polemical work, Sioui never descends to recrimination or vituperative condemnation, even when that might seem justified. Instead, he has given us a polemic that is written at the level of philosophy.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Disease Has Overcome the Devil; 2 The Sacred Circle of Life; 3 The Amerindian Idea of Being Human; 4 The Destruction of Huronia; 5 Lahontan: Discover of Americity; 6 The Dispersal of the Wendat; Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix: The Indian Problem: A Final Look; Notes

Notes:

Translation of: Pour une autohistoire amérindienne.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-85616-2

9786612856167

0-7735-6366-0

OCLC:

1245678707