Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century Paperback - 1997
by Fergus M. Bordewich
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THE MAN in the baseball cap was standing in the lee of the museum, squinting across the Montana prairie.
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In the face 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 sovereignty in ways that empower tribal governments far beyond most American's imaginations. While new found power has enriched tribal life and prospects, and has made Native Americans fuller participants in the American dream, it has brought tribal governments into direct conflict with local economics and the federal government. Based on three years of research on the Native American reservations, and written without a hidden conservative bias or politically correct agenda, "Killing the White Man's Indian takes on Native American politics and policies today in all their contradictory--and controversial-guises."
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- Title Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century
- Author Fergus M. Bordewich
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Anchor Books
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date April 14, 1997
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780385420365 / 0385420366
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.21 x 0.87 in (20.35 x 13.23 x 2.21 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Religious Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America, Indians of North America - Ethnic identity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95023069
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.197
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