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Challenging received American history and forging a new path for Native American studies Addressing Native American Studies' past, present, and future, the essays in "New Indians, Old Wars" tackle the discipline head-on, presenting a radical revision of the popular view of the American West in the process. Instead of luxuriating in its past glories or accepting the widespread historians' view of the West as a shared place, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn argues that it should be fundamentally understood as stolen.Firmly grounded in the reality of a painful past, Cook-Lynn understands the story of the American West as teaching the political language of land theft and tyranny. She argues that to remedy this situation, Native American studies must be considered and pursued as its own discipline, rather than as a subset of history or anthropology. She makes an impassioned claim that such a shift, not merely an institutional or theoretical change, could allow Native American studies to play an important role in defending the sovereignty of indigenous nations today.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: New Indians, Old Wars
• Author: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780252031663
• ID: 04867951
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 513 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. May 2007

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