The Return of the Native
American Indian Political Resurgence
1st Edition
Published in December 1988
289 pages
978-0-19-802082-0 (ISBN)
Description
An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations--and Indian responses to them--have shaped contemporary Indian political fortunes. Cornell shows how, in the early days of colonization, Indians were able to maintain their nationhood by playing off the competing European powers; and how the American Revolution and westward expansion eventually caused Native Americans to lose their land, social cohesion, and economic independence. The final part of the book recounts the slow, steady reemergence of American Indian political power and identity, evidenced by militant political activism in the 1960s and early 1970s. By paying particular attention to the evolution of Indian groups as collective actors and to changes over time in Indian political opportunities and their capacities to act on those opportunities, Cornell traces the Indian path from power to powerlessness and back to power again.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
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19,04 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-19-802082-0 (9780198020820)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Chapter 1 The New Indian Politics
- Part I: INTO THE DARK
- Chapter 2 Exceptional Beginnings: The Fur Trade and Indian Labor
- Chapter 3 Solving "the Indian Problem
- Chapter 4 "They Carry Their Lives on Their Finger Nails
- Part II: THE FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL RESURGENCE
- Chapter 5 The Transformations of the Tribe
- Chapter 6 New Music, New Partners, A New Dance
- Chapter 7 Toward a Supratribal Consciousness
- Chapter 8 The Politics of Indianness
- Chapter 9 Who Wants What?
- Chapter 10 Old Wars, New Weapons
- Part III: THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE
- Chapter 11 Lieutenant Anthony's Legacy
- Chapter 12 Indian-White Relations Revised
- Chapter 13 "Another World is Coming
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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