Killing The White Man's Indian: The Reinvention of Native Americans at the End of the 20th Century

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In the face of the current, highly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts our myths and misconceptions to reveal the realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual extermination of the "savage red man," Americans have recast Native Americans into another equally stereotyped role, that of eternal victims, politically powerless and weakened by poverty and alcoholism, yet whose spiritual ties with the natural world form the ...
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In the face of the current, highly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts our myths and misconceptions to reveal the realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual extermination of the "savage red man," Americans have recast Native Americans into another equally stereotyped role, that of eternal victims, politically powerless and weakened by poverty and alcoholism, yet whose spiritual ties with the natural world form the last, best hope of salvaging our natural environment and ennobling our souls. What will surprise many Americans, however, is that a virtual revolution is under way in Indian Country, from New England to Florida, and from New York to the Pacific Northwest. It is an upheaval of epic proportions: for the first time in generations, Indians are shaping their own destinies largely outside the control of whites, reinventing Indian education and justice, and exploiting the principle of tribal sovereignty in ways that empower tribal government far beyond most Americans' imaginations - posing profound challenges to regional economies, and both state and local governments. Based on four years of research on tribal reservations, and written without a hidden political bias or agenda, Killing the White Man's Indian takes on Native American politics and policies today in all their contradictory - and controversial - guises.

In the bestselling tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Indian Country, this in-depth exploration of "Indian Country" today overturns the fallacies and myths surrounding Native Americans in the '90s. Media coverage.

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A new generation of politically astute Native Americans is developing aggressive tribal governments bent on resuscitating once-moribund cultures and on managing federal programs without the paternalistic oversight of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Bordewich, a roving editor for Reader's Digest, who spent three years visiting reservations, believes that today's tribal sovereignty movement represents the best hope in decades for restoring economically crippled communities. Yet the movement, in his opinion, is tinged with separatist ideology and an ``overwhelming, largely irrational fear of yet more loss and betrayal.'' Arguing that in some states, Native Americans' claims to water and fishing rights and their demand for sacred lands pose a threat to local economies, Bordewich maintains that the sovereignty movement runs the risk of creating a multitude of independent statelets, some economically unviable and ill governed. His vibrant, compelling, diversified portrait of contemporary Native Americans dispels whites' lingering stereotypes of Indians either as permanent victims or as morally superior beings living in primeval, unchanging communion with nature. (Feb.)
Ray Olson
There is great ferment in Indian country these days, one sign of which is all the tribally run gambling casinos that have blossomed like theme parks across the national landscape. They are merely the most obvious element in a burst of development that Bordewich surveys with the trenchancy of an investigative reporter and, frequently, the artfulness--especially in descriptions of particular places, persons, and moments--of a fine writer. In nine hefty, engrossing chapters, he takes up as many large topics--historic Indian-white relations, modern Indian identity, the revival of tribal authority, Indians and environmentalism, conflicts between reinvigorated Indian property rights and archaeological research, new Indian claims to lands said to be sacred, Indian alcoholism, the reservation-based system of Indian colleges, and the promise and perils of growing economic and political cooperation with the world beyond the reservation. For each topic, Bordewich tells both success and horror stories, brings forward credible Indian voices on both or several sides of the issues, and shatters myths about Indians that range from the noble savage to the chronic drunk. Most important, he presents Indians as every bit as complex as any other set of human beings, their issues as every bit as consequential as those of any other set of U.S. citizens.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780385420358
  • Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 1/1/1996
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 6.54 (w) x 10.03 (h) x 1.47 (d)

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