A Separate Country: Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations

A Separate Country: Postcoloniality and American Indian NationsElizabeth Cook Lynn takes academia to task for its much touted notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of Indian communities in the United States. She finds the argument neither believable nor useful at best an ivory tower initiative on the part of influential scholars, at worst a cruel joke. In this fin de career retrospective, Cook Lynn gathers evidence that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world,

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn takes academia to task for its much-touted notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of Indian communities in the United States. She finds the argument neither believable nor useful--at best an ivory-tower initiative on the part of influential scholars, at worst a cruel joke. In this fin de career retrospective, Cook-Lynn gathers evidence that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world, mired in poverty and disenfranchised both socially and politically. Despite Native-initiated efforts toward seeking First Nationhood status in the U. S., Cook-Lynn posits, Indian lands remain in the grip of a centuries-old English colonial system--a renewable source of conflict and discrimination. She argues that proportionately in the last century, government-supported development of casinos and tourism--peddled as an answer to poverty--probably cost Indians more treaty-protected land than they lost in the entire nineteenth century. Using land issues and third-world theory to look at the historiography of the American Plains Indian experience, she examines colonization's continuing assault on Indigenous peoples. Also 04 Activeable in cloth, 978-0-89672-734-2, $65.00

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 11/01/2011
ISBN: 9780896727250
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Choice 09/01/2012