Anti-Indianism In Modern America
About the Book
In paperback for the first time, this volume tells the other side of stories of historical massacres and modern-day hate crimes against Native Americans--events that have been dismissed or glossed over by historians, journalists, and courts alike. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn exposes the colonialism that works both overtly and covertly to silence and diminish Native Americans, supported by a rhetoric of reconciliation, assimilation, and multiculturalism. By comparing anti-Indianism to anti-Semitism, she sets the American history of broken treaties, stolen lands, mass murder, cultural dispossession, and Indian hating in an international context of ethnic cleansing, "ecocide," and colonial oppression.About the Author
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930-2023) was a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and a writer, poet, and professor emerita of Native American studies at Eastern Washington University. She was the author of many books, including Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy and New Indians, Old Wars, and the coauthor of The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty.Also by this author
Reviews
"With this set of incisive essays, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confirms her status as the most insightful Indian essayist of our time. Displaying an incredible breadth of knowledge in a variety of fields, she examines some of the most controversial issues in American Indian studies."--Vine Deloria Jr., Pacific Historical QuarterlyBlurbs
"In fiercely arguing for a tribal model of Indian Studies based on sovereignty and indigenousness, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn brilliantly tells the story of the brutal U.S. colonization of Indian nations as well as its covering up of that history. This new work is as bold as the hard blue sky of Cook-Lynn's homeland in the northern plains. It is destined to become a classic of indigenous literature."--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
"Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is one of the founding scholars of Native American Studies, and with New Indians, Old Wars she remains one of its most important voices. To use her own language, she keeps our collective plot moving."--Jace Weaver, director, Institute of Native American Studies, University of Georgia
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