Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights Publisher: ISBN: Category : Government publications Languages : en Pages : 160
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"'The Navajo Nation: An American Colony' describes how this country's largest Indian reservation is handicapped in its quest for economic development by a host of problems arising primarily out of its legal status, deficiencies in the Federal administrative structure, and inadequate funding of the Federal health delivery system. The report is based on the Commission's hearing in Window Rock, Arizona, capital of the Navajo Reservation, in October 1973, and on months of research preceding and following that hearing. Some of the problems discussed will require legislative remedies, while others may be solved much more readily by administrative action. It is our hope that this report, with its findings and recommendations, will stir a prompt response. We believe this neglected segment of the American populace already has suffered too long from the burdens attendant to its deplorable status as 'the poorest of America's poor.'"--Page iii.
Author: Ida B 1862-1931 Wells-Barnett Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781014083913 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Jack D. Forbes Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806126999 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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Seventeen short stories on life as an Indian in today's America. In An Incident in a Tour Among the Natives, an Indian writer is coveted by a white woman seeking a sexual experience with a savage, while in A City Indian Goes to School, an Indian teenager succeeds in overcoming alcoholism.
Author: Robert W Young Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 86
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Robert W. Young provides a description of the Navajo language including its relationship with other Native American languages, its phonology, morphology, structure and other features. He also spends some time comparing English and Navajo and the problems that confront a native Navajo speaker in their effort to master spoken English, and the stepping stones a native English speaker encounters learning the Navajo language. As he notes somewhere else: "The pattern of Navajo thought and linguistic expression is totally unlike that of the European languages with which we are most commonly familiar . . . the pattern of thought varies so greatly from our English pattern that we have no small difficulty in learning to think like, and subsequently to express ourselves like the Navajo."
Author: Jack D. Forbes Publisher: Seven Stories Press ISBN: 1583229825 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 259
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Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern "civilized" lifestyle is more relevant now than ever before. Identifying the Western compulsion to consume the earth as a sickness, Forbes writes: "Brutality knows no boundaries. Greed knows no limits. Perversion knows no borders. . . . These characteristics all push towards an extreme, always moving forward once the initial infection sets in. . . . This is the disease of the consuming of other creatures’ lives and possessions. I call it cannibalism." This updated edition includes a new chapter by the author.
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Author: Ida B 1862-1931 Wells-Barnett
Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Author: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Agency
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Author: Jack D. Forbes
Author: Robert W Young
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation
Author: Jack D. Forbes
Author: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs