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- Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
summary
In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Cobb shows how tribal leaders, intellectuals, and activists deployed a variety of protest methods over more than a century to demand Indigenous sovereignty. As these documents show, Native peoples have adopted a wide range of strategies in this struggle, invoking "American" and global democratic ideas about citizenship, freedom, justice, consent of the governed, representation, and personal and civil liberties while investing them with indigenized meanings.
The more than fifty documents gathered here are organized chronologically and thematically for ease in classroom and research use. They address the aspirations of Indigenous nations and individuals within Canada, Hawaii, and Alaska as well as the continental United States, placing their activism in both national and international contexts. The collection's topical breadth, analytical framework, and emphasis on unpublished materials offer students and scholars new sources with which to engage and explore American Indian thought and political action.
The more than fifty documents gathered here are organized chronologically and thematically for ease in classroom and research use. They address the aspirations of Indigenous nations and individuals within Canada, Hawaii, and Alaska as well as the continental United States, placing their activism in both national and international contexts. The collection's topical breadth, analytical framework, and emphasis on unpublished materials offer students and scholars new sources with which to engage and explore American Indian thought and political action.
Table of Contents
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- Map and Figures
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- 1 “My Own Nation” (1899)8
- pp. 13-18
- 2 “Keep Our Treaties” (1906)17
- pp. 19-23
- 7 “I Want to Be Free” (1920)40
- pp. 39-44
- 8 “I Am Going to Geneva” (1923)51
- pp. 45-49
- 9 “It Is Our Way of Life” (1924)55
- pp. 50-54
- II: RECLAIMING A FUTURE, 1934–1954
- pp. 55-58
- 11 “Fooled So Many Times” (1934)11
- pp. 64-67
- 12 “Let Us Try a New Deal” (1934)16
- pp. 68-69
- 20 “We Are Citizens” (1954)6
- pp. 101-102
- 22 “We Are Lumbee Indians” (1955)10
- pp. 107-110
- 24 “A Human Right in a Free World” (1961)21
- pp. 115-119
- 25 “This Is Not Special Pleading” (1961)23
- pp. 120-123
- 26 “I Can Recognize a Beginning” (1962)25
- pp. 124-127
- 27 “To Survive as a People” (1964)31
- pp. 128-132
- 30 “We Will Resist” (1965)43
- pp. 143-145
- 35 “We Have the Power” (1974)12
- pp. 163-166
- 39 “Our Red Nation” (1978)22
- pp. 180-183
- 40 “These Are Inherent Rights” (1978)24
- pp. 184-188
- 41 “Get the Record Straight” (1987)26
- pp. 189-191
- 44 “Return the Power of Governing” (1994)37
- pp. 199-202
- V: TESTING THE LIMITS, 1994–2015
- pp. 203-206
- 45 “We Already Know Our History” (1996)10
- pp. 207-209
- 46 “We Would Like to Have Answers” (2003)12
- pp. 210-215
- 53 “Indian Enough” (2013)32
- pp. 239-241
- 54 “We Will Be There to Meet You” (2013)34
- pp. 242-244
- 55 “Call Me Human” (2015)36
- pp. 245-248
- Conclusion: Forgotten/Remembered
- pp. 249-250
- Bibliography
- pp. 267-284
- Other Works in the Series
- pp. 297-298
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469624822
Related ISBN(s)
9781469624808, 9781469624815, 9798890886422
MARC Record
OCLC
921988738
Pages
316
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No