| Description |
xxviii, 753 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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Pt. 1. The Species of Origin. 1. The Species of Origin. The Creation of Beginning (Navajo/Dine). Our Year (Inuit). Gudatrigakwitl and the Creation (Wishosk). Myth of Creation (Osage). A Maya Prophecy (Yucatan). Prayer to the Ancients after Harvesting (Zuni). Songs of the People (Anishinabe Nagamon). Cry of the Earth (Lorraine Mafi Williams, Aboriginal Australian). The Aboriginal Question (Kevin Gilbert, Australia). 'I am always dual' (Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Melanesia) -- Pt. 2. Dispossession. 1. The Avenging Angel. Letter by Francisco de Montejo Xiu, 1567 (Maya). 2. Indian Wars. I, Tecumseh (Shawnee). Beware of friends as these (Pachgantachilias, Delaware). 'That we may know if you are just' (Chief Cornplant, Seneca). Farewell, My Nation! Farewell! (Black Hawk). Testimony of Chief Sealth (Duwamish). 'We would rather have died' (Standing Bear, Poncas). 'I will fight no more forever' (Chief Joseph, Nez Perce). Sacrificing Homes and Children (Choctaw/Chickasaw) |
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'The Next Test Could be Fatal' (Myron Matao, Polynesia). Opposing MX (Shoshone). 1984: Appeal to all people who believe in a non-nuclear future (National Federation of Aboriginal Land Councils, Australia; Coalition of First Nations, Canada; International Indian Treaty Council, USA). 'After the water is contaminated, what will we live on?' (Lac La Hache, Canada). Native People Oppose Uranium (Sandra Levers, Australia). 'The white fellers never learn' (Yeelirrie, Australia). Uranium mining in the Black Hills (Winona La Duke, Anishinabe). 'We come here in our last breath' (Herb Blatchford, Navajo). No mines on our land (Ernest Lavato, Santo Domingo). No waste on our land (Russel Jim, Yakima, Washington). Statement by World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Statement of Fourth and Third World Nations against uranium mining. 4. Mining and Multinationals. 1963: Petition of the Yirrkala people (Northern Territory, Australia). Press Release by Yungngora Aboriginal Community (Noonkanbah, Western Australia) |
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'You just can't hold us up again!' (Australia). The Murui of the Caqueta relate their true history (Colombia). Statements (Ken Gunbuku and Bill Manydjarri, Australia). This letter to you was written by tribal elder Gubboo Ted Thomas (Australia). While we have breath . . . (T'Boli-Ubo-Manobo-Visayan, Philippines). A Small Flame (Mangyan, Philippines). Accusation by the Mapuche community of Jose Hineo (Mapuche, Chile). The dignity of the land (Aotearoa). The Caribs and their Colonizers: The problem of land (Chief Hilary Frederick, Dominican Republic). Presentation to NGO conference (World Council of Indigenous Peoples) -- Pt. 4. Conscientisation and the Recovery of Origins. 1. Hawaii 1845: The Lahaina Petition. 2. Colombia: Daughters of the Countryside (1927). 3. India: Self-identification and Destiny. 4. Aboriginal Australia: a Petition Against Genocide. 5. The New Indians. 6. Bolivia: The Manifesto of Tiawanaku. 7. The Dene Declaration. 8. Nishnawbe-Aski: The People and the Land are One |
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6. Settle-down Country -- Moving Back to the Land. The Yedinji Return (Queensland, Australia). 'Saying strongly, we are not going back' (Smithy Zimran, Australia). The Western Desert Outstations Council (Australia). Operation Homecoming: Kwajalein (Marshall Islands). New Caledonia: Independence Front Steps Up Demands (Kanaky). Letter (Tahiti). Letter (Jeton Anjain, Marshall Islands). Declaration (Clayoquot Band, Canada). No Place Like Home (Rachel Peter, Mapoon, Australia). Half the Land of Paradise (Jean Jimmy, Mapoon, Australia). 7. Ambassadors at Large: the International Links. The Common Factor: colour of our skins (Lila Watson, Australia). 'This is a re-run' (Chief Oren Lyons, North America). A Focus for Unity (Asuncion Ontiveros Yuguila, Peru). Dene President Visits Guatemalan Refugee Camps (Dene, Canada). 8. Endpiece: New Beginnings. We are Power (John Trudell, American Indian Movement). Now we believe we are united (Napo Quicha, Peru) |
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9. A World Council of Indigenous People. 10. USA: The Longest Walk. 11. The Haudenosaunee Declaration of the Iroquois. 12. The Russell Tribunal 1980. 13. A Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific. 14. Brazil: An Indian in Parliament -- Pt. 5. Dialectics of Liberation. 1. Outsiders and Insiders. 2. Campesinos and Indians. 3. Nation-building: What is self-determination? -- Pt. 6. In Our Own Ways. 1. Thinking Small, Thinking Traditional, Building Independence. Decolonizing and recolonizing (Francis Bugotu, Solomon Islands). Developing Fiji (Jane Dakuvulu, Fiji). Traditionalism and the Redevelopment of Native Economies (John Mohawk, Akwesasne, USA). Appropriate Technology -- What is it? (Clem Chartier, Canada). 'A Nation Divided cannot become self-sufficient' (Winona La Duke, Anishinabe). 'The Caretakers of All Life' (Carolyn Tawangyowma, Hopi, USA). Building our own history (Mapuche, Chile). 2. Barefoot Indians. In the service of the people (CRIC, Columbia) |
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The Indian Voice (Leonard Peltier, Oakalla Prison, USA). 3. The Massacres. 'Bin kill all them children' (Australia). Mapoon (J. Roberts & D. McClean, Queensland, Australia). Gadia (Northern Territory, Australia). 'They shoot all the native people' (Lenny Leonard, Western Australia). 4. The Last Days. 'Our End Has Come (Tesere Guarusug'we, Bolivia). 5. Assimilation Soviet-style. Suppressed and humiliated for ever (G. N. Starkova, Kamchatka, USSR) -- Pt. 3. Present Struggles. 1. Invasions and Genocide. 'Time is on our side' (Roque Rodriguez, East Timor). 'We teach our people to count on themselves' (Rene Lebato, East Timor). 'Common problems . . . Common struggles' (The Peace Pact, Bodong, Philippines). 'Defy the armed invasion of our land . . .' (Kalinga-Bontoc, Philippines). An Open Letter to President Ferdinand E. Marcos (Philippines). Resolutions of CAMPP to the Aquino Government, 1986 (Philippines). An appeal . . . (Jana Sanghati Samiti, Chittagang Hill Tracts, Bangladesh) |
| Analysis |
Cultural conflict |
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Cultural identity |
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History |
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Indigenous persons Civil rights |
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Indigenous populations |
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Minorities |
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Overseas item |
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Social change |
| Notes |
Previous edition published: 1988 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Culture conflict.
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Indigenous peoples.
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Minorities.
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| Author |
Moody, Roger.
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| LC no. |
94166989 |
| ISBN |
9062249906 |
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