The American Indian Intellectual Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Indian Intellectual Tradition write by David Martinez. This book was released on 2011. The American Indian Intellectual Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thirty-one essays that exemplify Native American thinking on such issues as identity, autonomy, and sovereignty over two centuries.
Tribal Secrets
Tribal Secrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tribal Secrets write by Robert Allen Warrior. This book was released on 1995. Tribal Secrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A framework for understanding the contributions of Vine Deloria Jr. and John Joseph Mathews, two American Indian Intellectuals, as part of the struggle for tribal sovereighty, and argues that the contemporary reality of Native people can and should be part of the past, present, and future of Indian America.
Life of the Indigenous Mind
Life of the Indigenous Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life of the Indigenous Mind write by David Martínez. This book was released on 2019-08-01. Life of the Indigenous Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Life of the Indigenous Mind David Martínez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005), the most influential indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the intellectual architects of the Red Power movement. An experienced activist, administrator, and political analyst, Deloria was motivated to activism and writing by his work as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, and he came to view discourse on tribal self-determination as the most important objective for making a viable future for tribes. In this work of both intellectual and activist history, Martínez assesses the early life and legacy of Deloria’s “Red Power Tetralogy,” his most powerful and polemical works: Custer Died for Your Sins (1969), We Talk, You Listen (1970), God Is Red (1973), and Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties (1974). Deloria’s gift for combining sharp political analysis with a cutting sense of humor rattled his adversaries as much as it delighted his growing readership. Life of the Indigenous Mind reveals how Deloria’s writings addressed Indians and non-Indians alike. It was in the spirit of protest that Deloria famously and infamously confronted the tenets of Christianity, the policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the theories of anthropology. The concept of tribal self-determination that he initiated both overturned the presumptions of the dominant society, including various “Indian experts,” and asserted that tribes were entitled to the rights of independent sovereign nations in their relationship with the United States, be it legally, politically, culturally, historically, or religiously.
The People And the Word
The People And the Word - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The People And the Word write by Robert Allen Warrior. This book was released on . The People And the Word available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much literary scholarship has been devoted to the flowering of Native American fiction and poetry in the mid-twentieth century. Yet, Robert Warrior argues, nonfiction has been the primary form used by American Indians in developing a relationship with the written word, one that reaches back much further in Native history and culture. Focusing on autobiographical writings and critical essays, as well as communally authored and political documents, The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected Native experiences. Warrior begins by tracing a history of American Indian writing from the eighteenth century to the late twentieth century, then considers four particular moments: Pequot intellectual William Apess’s autobiographical writings from the 1820s and 1830s; the Osage Constitution of 1881; narratives from American Indian student experiences, including accounts of boarding school in the late 1880s; and modern Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday’s essay “The Man Made of Words,” penned during the politically charged 1970s. Warrior’s discussion of Apess’s work looks unflinchingly at his unconventional life and death; he recognizes resistance to assimilation in the products of the student print shop at the Santee Normal Training School; and in the Osage Constitution, as well as in Momaday’s writing, Warrior sees reflections of their turbulent times as well as guidance for our own. Taking a cue from Momaday’s essay, which gives voice to an imaginary female ancestor, Ko-Sahn, Warrior applies both critical skills and literary imagination to the texts. In doing so, The People and the Word provides a rich foundation for Native intellectuals’ critical work, deeply entwined with their unique experiences. Robert Warrior is professor of English and Native American studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (Minnesota, 1994) and coauthor, with Paul Chaat Smith, of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.
American Indian Literary Nationalism
American Indian Literary Nationalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Indian Literary Nationalism write by Jace Weaver. This book was released on 2006. American Indian Literary Nationalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of Native literature from the perspective of national sovereignty and self-determination.
