1st Edition

Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota (Sioux Nation)

By James V. Fenelon Copyright 1998
440 Pages
by Routledge

440 Pages
by Routledge

440 Pages
by Routledge

This ground-breaking work develops theories and methods of analyzing the United States' domination of Native Americans through a study of the Lakota society known as the Sioux Nation of Indians. Two centuries of struggle between nations and cultures during the U.S. expansion over North America are described utilizing policy (BIA) and cross-cultural (US-Lakota) history, with insightful additions to... Read more
Foreword by Manley A. Begay, Jr., Preface, Acknowledgments, List of Figures, Illustrations, Maps, Chapter 1 Introduction: Lakota Oyate, Chapter2 Culturicide Processes over Native Nations, Chapter 3 Comparative and Case Study Methods of Analysis, Chapter 4 Great Sioux Nation of the Lakota, Chapter 5 Ghost Dance Revitalization, Chapter 6 Repression of the Ghost Dance, Chapter 7 U.S. Policy and Lakota Resistance, Chapter 8, Lakota Cultural Survival, Chapter 9 Spirituality and Sovereignty, Chapter 10 Conclusions: Lakota, Culturicide, Native Nations, Bibliography / References, Endnotes, Index

Biography

James V. Fenelon

"...new and necessary examination of Lakota history that could stand outside the rest." -- Janna Knittel, Indigenous Nations Studies, Unversity of Kansas