Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a
scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America.
Here, he explores the history of holocaust and denial in this
hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and continuing
on into the present.
He frames the matter by examining both "revisionist" denial of
the nazi-perpatrated Holocaust and the opposing claim of its
exclusive "uniqueness," using the full scope of what happened in
Europe as a backdrop against which to demonstrate that genocide is
precisely what has been-and still is-carried out against the
American Indians.
Churchill lays bare the means by which many of these realities
have remained hidden, how public understanding of this most
monstrous of crimes has been subverted not only by its perpetrators
and their beneficiaries but by the institutions and individuals who
perceive advantages in the confusion. In particular, he outlines
the reasons underlying the United States's 40-year refusal to
ratify the Genocide Convention, as well as the implications of the
attempt to exempt itself from compliance when it finally offered
its "endorsement."
In conclusion, Churchill proposes a more adequate and coherent
definition of the crime as a basis for identifying, punishing, and
preventing genocidal practices, wherever and whenever they
occur.
Ward Churchill (enrolled Keetoowah Cherokee) is Professor of
American Indian Studies with the Department of Ethnic Studies at
the University of Colorado-Boulder. A member of the American Indian
Movement since 1972, he has been a leader of the Colorado chapter
for the past fifteen years. Among his previous books have been
"Fantasies of a Master Race, Struggle for the Land, Since Predator
Came," and "From a Native Son."
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