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Native Nations of North America: An Indigenous Perspective, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (March 27, 2014) © 2015

  • Steve Talbot University of the West of Scotland

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Examines Native Americans’ struggles for indigenous rights

Native Nations of North America: An Indigenous Perspective, 1/e, establishes a foundation of knowledge by examining the history of selected North American Natives from their perspective. By exploring the past, readers will better understand the struggles of modern-day indigenous peoples. Author Steven Talbot addresses many of the struggles and achievements for indigenous rights, including the goals of treaty rights, nationhood, and sovereignty.

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  • Provides an Indigenous Perspective - Years of research, academic activism, and personal interactions with indigenous peoples allow readers to understand major controversies from Natives’ perspectives. Readers gain an in-depth perspective of indigenous studies.
  • Incorporates Historical Events - Important historical themes and events emphasize controversies and disagreements that Native Americans face, such as the indigenous peoples’ resistance to integrate into present-day nation states. These examples underscore the many issues that have confronted Native Americans. In addition, contemporary challenges help readers understand current struggles.
  • Covers Major Cultural Areas of North America  - Specific chapters on Hawaii and Canada allow a broader perspective of Natives across the continent. Other major cultural areas include: the Iroquois of the Northeast, California Indians, Lakota of the Plains, Navajo and Hopi of the Southwest, Cherokee of the Southeast and Oklahoma, fishing tribes of the Northwest, Alaska Natives, and urban Indians.
  • Presents Material Topically - Organized by topic, themes are supported with examples from well-known Native nations.

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

I. INTRODUCTION: THE INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE.

II. HIDDEN HERITAGE: THE IROQUOIS AND THE EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACY. 

III. GREED AND GENOCIDE: CALIFORNIA INDIANS AND THE GOLD RUSH.

IV. SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: THE LAKOTA AND THE MEANING OF WOUNDED KNEE.

V. RELOCATION AS ETHNIC CLEANSING: THE NAVAJO-HOPI “LAND DISPUTE.”

VI. BIRTH, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF AN INDIAN REPUBLIC: THE CHEROKEE NATION OF OKLAHOMA.

VII. CRIMINALIZATION OF THE INDIAN: NORTHWEST FISHING RIGHTS AND THE CASE OF DAVID SOHAPPY.

VIII. INTERNAL COLONIZATION: NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND THE SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT.

IX. FIRST NATIONS: CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS ISSUES IN CANADA.

X. EXPERIMENT IN “RED” CAPITALISM: OIL V. ALASKA NATIVE SUBSISTENCE RIGHTS.

XI. THE TROUBLE WITH STEREOTYPES: NATIVE NATIONS AND THE URBAN TRADITION.

STEVE TALBOT received a master’s degree in anthropology and community development in 1967 from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974. In the early 1960s he was an American Friends Service Committee fieldworker in Indian community development on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona. He served on the board of Oakland’s Intertribal Friendship House and was closely associated with Indian student activism, the 1969 Alcatraz occupation, and the founding of the University of California at Berkeley Native American Studies program. He was acting assistant professor of Native American studies there from 1971 to 1974.

He has lectured and taught Native American studies courses in Europe and at several universities in the United States. He chaired the anthropology and sociology departments at the University of the District of Columbia, until 1983, and was a lecturer in Native American Studies at the University of California at Davis from 1988 to 1990. In 1999 Talbot retired from San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. Currently he is adjunct professor of anthropology at Oregon State University and an instructor in sociology and Native American Studies at Lane Community College. His publications have dealt mainly with Native American sovereignty, religious freedom, and political activism. These include the book Roots of Oppression: The American Indian Question (1981); the article “Academic Indianismo: Social Scientific Research in American Indian Studies” in American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2002); and the article “Spiritual Genocide: The Denial of American Indian Religious Freedom from Conquest to 1934,” Wicazo Sa Review (2006).

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