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Say We Are Nations

Daniel M. Cobb

2015

Overview

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 The collection's topical breadth, analytical framework, and emphasis on unpublished materials offer students and scholars new sources with which to engage and explore American Indian thought and political action.

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press,University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: Alaska Natives-Government relations-Sources / Alaska Natives-Politics and government-Sources / Alaska Natives-Social conditions-Sources / Civil rights / Government relations / Hawaiians-Government relations-Sources / Hawaiians-Politics and government-Sources / Hawaiians-Social conditions-Sources / HISTORY / Indians of North America-Government relations-Sources / Indians of North America-Politics and government-Sources / Indians of North America-Social conditions-Sources / Indigenous peoples / Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights -- United States -- Sources / Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- Sources / Indigenous peoples -- United States -- Government relations -- Sources / Indigenous peoples -- United States -- Politics and government -- Sources / Indigenous peoples -- United States -- Social conditions -- Sources / Legal status, laws, etc / Native American / Politics and government / Social conditions / Sources / Study & Teaching / United States
• ISBN: 146962480X, 9781469624808, 9781469624815, 1469624818