Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader

by Churchill,Ward

• ISBN13: 9780415931564
• ISBN10: 0415931568
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What could be more American than Columbus Day? Or the Washington Redskins? For Native Americans, they are bitter reminders that they live in a world where their identity is still fodder for white society. "The law has always been used as toilet paper by the status quo where American Indians are concerned," writes Ward Churchill inActs of Rebellion, a collection of his most important writings from the past twenty years. Vocal and incisive, Churchill stands at the forefront of American Indian concerns, from land issues to the American Indian Movement, from government repression to the history of genocide. Churchill, one of the most respected writers on Native American issues, lends a strong and radical voice to the American Indian cause.Acts of Rebellionshows how the most basic civil rights' laws put into place to aid all Americans failed miserably, and continue to fail, when put into practice for our indigenous brothers and sisters. Seeking to convey what has been done to NativeNorth America, Churchill skillfully dissects Native Americans' struggles for property and freedom, their resistance and repression, cultural issues, and radical Indian ideologies.

Author Biography

Ward Churchill is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written scores of academic and journalistic articles, as well as eight books, Three of his books have won the Gustavus Meyer Award for Human Rights

Table of Contents

Introduction: Acts of Rebellion: Notes on the Interaction of History and Justice	p. xi
In Matters of Law
"The Law Stood Squarely on Its Head:" U.S. Doctrine, Indigenous Self-Determination, and the Question of World Order	p. 3
The Nullification of Native America? An Analysis of the 1990 American Indian Arts and Crafts Act	p. 23
Confronting Columbus Day: An Argument Based in International Law	p. 43
Struggles for Lands and Lives
The Earth Is Our Mother: Struggles for American Indian Land and Liberation in the Contemporary United States	p. 65
A Breach of Trust: The Radioactive Colonization of Native North America	p. 111
Like Sand in the Wind: The Making of an American Indian Diaspora in the United States	p. 141
The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Repression of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s	p. 163
Culture Wars
Fantasies of the Master Race: The Cinematic Colonization of American Indians	p. 185
Let's Spread the "Fun" Around: The Issue of Sports Team Names and Mascots	p. 219
Indians 'R' Us: Reflections on the "Men's Movement"	p. 223
The Indigenist Alternative
False Promises: An Indigenist Examination of Marxist Theory and Practice	p. 247
The New Face of Liberation: Indigenous Rebellion, State Repression, and the Reality of the Fourth World	p. 263
I Am Indigenist: Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World	p. 275
Permissions/Acknowledgments	p. 301
Notes	p. 303
Index	p. 449
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