Killing The White Man's Indian; Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century

Bordewich, Fergus M.

ISBN 10: 0385420358 / ISBN 13: 9780385420358

Published by Doubleday 1996-01-01, US, 1996

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399 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462684.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Killing The White Man's Indian; Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century
• Publisher: Doubleday 1996-01-01, US
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385420358
• ISBN 13: 9780385420358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Rejecting the fallacies, myths, and stereotypes of Native American life, a study of contemporary Native American politics and policies examines efforts of tribal governments to take control of their own destinies, education, and justice, even in the face of direct conflict with the federal government. Tour.

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of a new lightly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual government extermination of the "savage redmen," Americans today have recast Native Americans into another, equally stereotyped role, that of eternal victims, politically powerless and weakened by poverty and alcoholism, yet whose spiritual ties with the natural world form our last, best hope of salvaging our natural environment and ennobling our souls.

The truth, however, is neither as grim , nor as blindly idealistic, as many would expect. The fact is that a virtual revolution is underway in Indian Country, an upheaval of epic proportions. For the first time in generations, Indians are shaping their own destinies, largely beyond the control of whites, reinventing Indian education and justice, exploiting the principle of tribal soverei