| A Separate Country: Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations Contributor(s): Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0896727254 ISBN-13: 9780896727250 Publisher: Texas Tech University Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | Native American - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 978.004 |
| LCCN: 2011024877 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn takes academia to task for its much-touted notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of Indian communities in the United States. She finds the argument neither believable nor useful--at best an ivory-tower initiative on the part of influential scholars, at worst a cruel joke. In this fin de career retrospective, Cook-Lynn gathers evidence that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world, mired in poverty and disenfranchised both socially and politically. Despite Native-initiated efforts toward seeking First Nationhood status in the U. S., Cook-Lynn posits, Indian lands remain in the grip of a centuries-old English colonial system--a renewable source of conflict and discrimination. She argues that proportionately in the last century, government-supported development of casinos and tourism--peddled as an answer to poverty--probably cost Indians more treaty-protected land than they lost in the entire nineteenth century. Using land issues and third-world theory to look at the historiography of the American Plains Indian experience, she examines colonization's continuing assault on Indigenous peoples. Also 04 Activeable in cloth, 978-0-89672-734-2, $65.00 |