Examines long-buried archival evidence documenting the forced sterilization of aboriginal women in Canada, linking this evidence to colonialism, the oppression of women, and the denial of indigenous sovereignty. Asserts that it should be understood as an act of genocide, and exp…
This book presents the results of original researches on Indigenous visual cultures of the American continent, covering a considerably long timeframe - from antiquity to the present." "Este libro reune quince ensayos que, a través del análisis de casos específicos, exploran las…
"Este libro reune quince ensayos que, a través del análisis de casos específicos, exploran las culturas visuales y las prácticas estéticas amerindias, abarcando un amplio periodo - desde el pasado antiguo hasta el presente. Son agrupados en cuatro secciones: 1) Cosmologías e his…
Native and non-native: colonial urbanization and the legal foundations of identity -- Identity and social structure in interwar Dar es Salaam -- Posing the urban question: war, state intervention, and the creation of urban entitlement -- Continental shift: civilization, racial t…
Pagans in the Promised Land provides a startling challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. Using history and cognitive theory, Steven Newcomb demonstrates how U.S. government officials have used religious concepts of Christendom, often unconsciously, to justify the taking…
An analysis of how religious bias shaped U.S. federal Indian law. Pagans in the Promised Land provides a startling challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. Using history and cognitive theory, Steven Newcomb demonstrates how U.S. government officials have used religious …
A revision and abridgement of material presented at the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry by the Dene themselves and by others on their behalf.
"Since the 1930s, government claims and popular thought within El Salvador have held that the country no longer holds any Indian population. Seeing Indians explores why this claim has endured despite the existence of substantial indigenous communities within the country's territ…
Indians in Kenya: the politics of diaspora
by Aiyar, Sana
fromHarvard historical studies