A separate country : postcoloniality and American Indian nations /

Essays questioning the academic notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of American Indian communities. Argues that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world; revises the popular view of the American West and explores the forgotten history o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > Historiography. Indians of North America > Colonization > West (U.S.) Indians, Treatment of > West (U.S.) > History. Postcolonialism > West (U.S.) > History. West (U.S.) > History. West (U.S.) > Race relations.

Table of Contents:

Situating colonial and postcolonial studies
Indigeneity as a category of analysis
A new understanding of a specific historical event within the colonial paradigm
Eliminationism
On "looking westward"
Law: the task of justification
Just a thought
Citizen! Citizen!
The cynical tourist
What about violence?
The politics of misogyny
The dilemma of language and the art of political persuasion
Balancing acts for academic risk takers
Taku Inichiapi? What's in a name?
Case study 1: the assault on a nation through the political applications of colonization (1888)
Case study 2: the dismissal of a people from the Dakota prairie: a case of literary genocide (1920-1930)
Is now the moment?
State governmental power versus tribal nation autonomy.