Conquest
Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
1st Edition
Published on 17. September 2015
264 pages
978-0-8223-7481-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this revolutionary text, Native American scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the disturbing connections between white settler colonialism, genocide, and violence against Native American women and children.
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04/2015
Duke University Press
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Andrea Smith is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances and coeditor of Theorizing Native Studies, both also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword / Winona LaDuke ix
Introduction 1
1. Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide 7
2. Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations 35
3. Rape of the Land 55
4. "Better Dead than Pregnant": The Colonization of Native Womens' Reproductive Health 79
5. "Natural Laboratories": Medical Experimentation in Native Communities 109
6. Spiritual Appropriations as Sexual Violence 119
7. Anticolonial Responses to Gender Violence 137
8. U.S. Empire and the War Against Native Sovereignty 177
Endnotes 193
Resource Guide 223
Index 231
Foreword / Winona LaDuke ix
Introduction 1
1. Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide 7
2. Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations 35
3. Rape of the Land 55
4. "Better Dead than Pregnant": The Colonization of Native Womens' Reproductive Health 79
5. "Natural Laboratories": Medical Experimentation in Native Communities 109
6. Spiritual Appropriations as Sexual Violence 119
7. Anticolonial Responses to Gender Violence 137
8. U.S. Empire and the War Against Native Sovereignty 177
Endnotes 193
Resource Guide 223
Index 231
