| Description |
xiii, 362 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Psychology of Earth and sky / Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) -- Ethnoastronomy as the key to human intellectual development and social organization / Clara Sue Kidwell (Choctaw/Ojibwe) -- Power of Seneca women and the legacy of Handsome Lake / John Mohawk (Seneca) -- Power of native languages and the performance of indigenous autonomy : the case of Mexico / Ines Hernandez-Avila (Nez Perce/Chicana) -- Metaphysics of federal Indian law and U. S. colonialism of American Indians / M. A. Jaimes-Guerrero (Juaneo/Yaqui) -- From time immemorial : the origin and import of the reserved rights doctrine / David E. Wilkins (Lumbee) -- Vine Deloria, Jr., and the development of a decolonizing critique of indigenous peoples and international relations / Glenn T. Morris (Shawnee) -- International law and U. S. trust responsibility toward Native Americans / S. James Anaya (Purepecha/Apache) -- When God became red / Cecil Corbett (Nez Perce) -- Earth mother and prayerful children : sacred sites and religious freedom / Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne) -- Religious studies on the margins : decolonizing our minds / Michelene E. Pesantubbee (Choctaw) -- American Indian religious traditions, colonialism, resistance, and liberation / George E. Tinker (Osage/Cherokee) -- There is no such thing as a one-way land bridge / Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) -- Contours of enlightenment : reflections on science, theology, law, and the alternative vision of Vine Deloria, Jr. / Ward Churchill (Keetowah band of Cherokee) -- Transforming American conceptions about Native America : Vine Deloria, Jr., critic and coyote / Ines Talamantez (Apache/Chicana) -- Yuchi travels : up and down the academic "road to disappearance" / Richard A. Grounds (Yuchi/Seminole) -- Passage of generations / Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) -- Appendix : United Nations draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples (26 August 1994). |
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Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
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Indians of North America -- Politics and government.
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Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
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Self-determination, National.
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Deloria, Vine.
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| Added Author |
Grounds, Richard A.
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Tinker, George E.
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Wilkins, David E. (David Eugene), 1954-
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| ISBN |
0700612580 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0700612599 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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