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Serving Their Country - American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Serving Their Country - American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Over the twentieth century, American Indians fought for their right
to be both American and Indian. In an illuminating book, Paul C.
Rosier traces how Indians defined democracy, citizenship, and
patriotism in both domestic and international contexts. Battles
over the place of Indians in the fabric of American life took place
on reservations, in wartime service, in cold war rhetoric, and in
the courtroom. The Society of American Indians, founded in 1911,
asserted that America needed Indian cultural and spiritual values.
In World War II, Indians fought for their ancestral homelands and
for the United States. The domestic struggle of Indian nations to
defend their cultures intersected with the international cold war
stand against termination-the attempt by the federal government to
end the reservation system. Native Americans seized on the ideals
of freedom and self-determination to convince the government to
preserve reservations as places of cultural strength. Red Power
activists in the 1960s and 1970s drew on Third World independence
movements to assert an ethnic nationalism that erupted in a series
of protests-in Iroquois country, in the Pacific Northwest, during
the occupation of Alcatraz Island, and at Wounded Knee. Believing
in an empire of liberty for all, Native Americans pressed the
United States to honor its obligations at home and abroad. Like
African Americans, twentieth-century Native Americans served as a
visible symbol of an America searching for rights and justice.
American history is incomplete without their story.
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