We all know what happened at Wounded Knee . . . don't we?
In this powerful and essential work, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confronts
the politics and policies of genocide that continue to destroy the
land, livelihood, and culture of Native Americans. "Anti-Indianism
in Modern America" tells the other side of stories of historical
massacres and modern-day hate crimes, events that are dismissed or
glossed over by historians, journalists, and courts alike.
Cook-Lynn exposes the colonialism that works both overtly and
covertly to silence and diminish Native Americans, supported by a
rhetoric of reconciliation, assimilation, and multiculturalism.
Comparing anti-Indianism to anti-Semitism, she sets the American
history of broken treaties, stolen lands, mass murder, cultural
dispossession, and Indian hating in an international context of
ethnic cleansing, " ecocide" (environmental destruction), and
colonial oppression.
Cook-Lynn also discusses the role Native American studies should
take in reasserting tribal literatures, traditions, and politics
and shows how the discipline has been sidelined by anthropology,
sociology, postcolonial studies, and ethnic studies. Asserting the
importance of a " native conscience" --a knowledge of the
mythologies, mores, and experiences of tribal society--among
American Indian writers, she calls for the expression in American
Indian art and literature of a tribal consciousness that acts to
assure a tribal-nation people of its future.
Passionate, eloquent, and uncompromising, "Anti-Indianism in
Modern America" concludes that there are no real solutions for
Indians as long as they remain colonized peoples. Native Americans
must be ableto tell their own stories and, most important, regain
their land, the source of religion, morality, rights, and
nationhood. As long as public silence accompanies the outlaw
maneuvers that undermine tribal autonomy, the racist strategies
that affect all Americans will continue.
It is difficult, Cook-Lynn concedes, to work toward the
development of legal mechanisms against hate crimes, in Indian
Country and elsewhere in the world. But it is not too late.
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