基本説明
Including health, environment, cultural heritage, rights, and economic sustainability.
Full Description
Most Americans know very little about Native America. For many, most of their knowledge comes from an amalgam of three sources—a barely remembered required history class in elementary school, Hollywood movies, and debates in the news media over casinos or sports mascots. This two-volume set deals with these issues as well as with more important topics of concern to the future of Native Americans, including their health, their environment, their cultural heritage, their rights, and their economic sustainability.
This two-volume set is one of few guides to Native American revival in our time. It includes detailed descriptions of efforts throughout North America regarding recovery of languages, trust funds, economic base, legal infrastructure, and agricultural systems. The set also includes personal profiles of individuals who have sparked renewal, from Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a leader among the Inuit whose people deal with toxic chemicals and global warming, to Ernest Benedict and Ray Fadden, who brought pride to Mohawk children long before the idea was popular. Also included are descriptions of struggles over Indian mascots, establishment of multicultural urban centers, and ravages of uranium mining among the Navajo. The set ends with a detailed development of contemporary themes in Native humor as a coping mechanism. Delving occasionally into historical context, this set includes valuable background information on present-day controversies that are often neglected by the news media. For example, the current struggles to recover Native American trust funds and languages both emerged from a cradle-to-grave control system developed by the U.S. and Canadian governments.
These efforts are part of a much broader Native American effort to recover from pervasive poverty and reassert Native American economic independence. Is gambling an answer to poverty, the new buffalo, as some Native Americans have called it? The largest Native American casino to date has been the Pequots' Foxwoods, near Ledyard, Connecticut. In other places, such as the New York Oneidas' lands in Upstate New York, gambling has provided an enriched upper class the means to hire police to force anti-gambling traditionalists from their homes. Among the Mohawks at Akwesasne, people have died over the issue. This two-volume set brings together all of these struggles with the attention to detail they have always deserved and rarely received.
Contents
Volume 1: Linguistic, Ethnic, and Economic Revival Preface Introduction Dedication: On the Passing of Vine Deloria Jr. Chapter 1: Back from the (Nearly) Dead: Reviving Indigenous Languages Across North America Chapter 2: Where Has All the Money Gone? Chapter 3: Economic Revival: Up from the Bottom on the Reservation Chapter 4: High-Stakes Genealogy: When Is a Pequot Not a Pequot? Chapter 5: Names and Games: The Controversy Regarding Indian Sports Mascots and Place Names Volume 2: Legal, Cultural, and Environmental Revival Introduction Chapter 1: Cast Among the Living Dead: Banishment Is Back Chapter 2: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: The Curious Conviction of Leonard Peltier Chapter 3: Grandfathers of Akwesasne Mohawk Revitalization: Ray Fadden and Ernest Benedict Chapter 4: Mestizo Nation: La Plaza de Seattle Chapter 5: Back to Bushmeat and Berries Chapter 6: The New Inuit Chapter 7: The High Price of Uranium in Navajo and Dene Country Chapter 8: Catharsis vis--vis Oppression: Contemporary Native American Political Humor Selected Bibliography Index
