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"Spirit Wars" is an exploration of the ways in which the
destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in
North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a
process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen
approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving
different colonial powers and state governments: the
seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the
colonization of the Northeast by the French and British,
nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the
swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-century struggles
for native people's spiritual integrity and freedom. Each chapter
deals with a specific dimension of the relationship between native
peoples and non-native institutions, and together these topics
yield a new understanding of the forces directed against the
underpinnings of native cultures.
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