Author: Bartolomé de las CasasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875805566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
In Defense of the Indians
Author: Bartolomé de las CasasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875805566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
Uncommon Defense
Author: John W. HallPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674035188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black Hawk and a thousand followers marched into Illinois to reoccupy lands ceded to American settlers, the U.S. Army turned to rival tribes for military support. In order to grasp Indian motives, Hall explores their alliances in earlier wars with colonial powers and in intertribal conflicts.
In Defense of the Indians
Author: Bartolomé de las CasasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians, Treatment of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Defense of the Indians, Pp. 17-22
Author: Bartolomé de las CasasIn Defense of the Indians
Author: Bartolomé De las CasasHistory of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de las CasasPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In Defense of Wyam
Author: Katrine BarberPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029574359X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever. Controversy surrounded the project, with local Native communities anticipating the devastation of their way of life and white settler–descended advocates of the dam envisioning a future of thriving infrastructure and industry. In In Defense of Wyam, having secured access to hundreds of previously unknown and unexamined letters, Katrine Barber revisits the subject of Death of Celilo Falls, her first book. She presents a remarkable alliance across the opposed Native and settler-descended groups, chronicling how the lives of two women leaders converged in a shared struggle to protect the Indian homes of Celilo Village. Flora Thompson, member of the Warm Springs Tribe and wife of the Wyam chief, and Martha McKeown, daughter of an affluent white farming family, became lifelong allies as they worked together to protect Oregon’s oldest continuously inhabited site. As a Native woman, Flora wielded significant power within her community yet outside of it was dismissed for her race and her gender. Martha, although privileged due to her settler origins, turned to women’s clubs to expand her political authority beyond the conventional domestic sphere. Flora's and Martha’s coordinated efforts offer readers meaningful insight into a time and place where the rhetoric of Native sovereignty, the aims of environmental movements in the American West, and women’s political strategies intersected. A Helen Marie Ryan Wyman Book
American Indians and World War II
Author: Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806131849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Details the impact of World War II on American Indian life, arguing that the war had a more profound and lasting effect on the course of Indian affairs in the twentieth century than any other single event or period, and assessing its consequences for American Indians and whites.
Domestic Subjects
Author: Beth H. PiatotePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300189095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home and family. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Piatote tracks the double movement of literature and law in the contest over the aims of settler-national domestication and the defense of tribal-national culture, political rights, and territory.
Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights
Author: Lawrence A. ClaytonPublisher: Atlantic Crossings
ISBN: 0817359699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
"This is a reader devoted to the life and writings of Bartolomé de las Casas (1485-1566), and the effects of his legacy on the age of the Encounter when Europeans-principally but not exclusively Spaniards-conquered the Americas. Las Casas is arguably the most important figure of the Encounter Age after Christopher Columbus, and Las Casas is well known to those who teach Western civilization, various survey histories of Spain and Latin America, and Atlantic history. He is known principally as the author of the "Black Legend," as well as the "protector" of American Indians. He was one of the pioneers of the human rights movement, and a Christian activist who invoked Biblical scripture to interpret what was right and wrong in the great age of the Encounter. He was also one of the first and most thorough chroniclers of the conquest, and a biographer who saved the diary of Columbus's first voyage for posterity through his History of the Indies, for the journal of that voyage was lost. He was also an innovator in political theory and a proto-ethnographer, and his contributions in geography, philosophy, and literature are no less significant. That he was also crusty, self-righteous, judgmental, given to gross exaggerations, and not a very loving Christian adds the very human dimension of failure to his character. This reader provides the most wide-ranging, and concise anthology of Las Casas' writings, in translation, ever made available. It contains not only excerpts from his most well-known texts, but also his writings on political philosophy and law, which are largely unavailable. Many of these selections have never been translated into English and they mostly address these under-appreciated aspects of his thought. As such, this volume presents Las Casas as a more comprehensive and systematic philosophical and legal thinker than he is given credit. The introduction puts these writings into a synthetic whole by biographically tracing his indigenous advocacy throughout his career"--