Heeding The Voices Of Our Ancestors: Kahnawake Mohawk Politics And The Rise Of Native Nationalism by Gerald Robert Alfred

This book is the first comprehensive study of the driving force behind Native political activism, and the only scholarly treatment of North American Indian politics which integrates an explicitly Native perspective. With a broad historical scope rich in detail, and drawing on the particular experience of the Mohawks of Kahnawake, it offers an explanation of Indian and Inuit political activism focusing on the importance of traditional values and institutions in shaping Native responses to the state. The book explains the recent rise of a militant assertion of sovereignty on the part of Native people in terms of three major factors: the existence of alternative institutions in the body of the nation's traditional culture; the self-conscious development of an alternative identity; and a persistent pattern of negative interaction with the state.

Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Year:	1995
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780195411386
Condition:	Very Good

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SKU: 1594500
Location: Politics