Title: Indians of the Americas : human rights and self-determination /
Authors: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-
Publisher: Praeger,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Indians History; Indians, Treatment of.; Indians Government relations; Indians; Nationalism America History
Abstract: Concerned with Native American self-determination, this book proposes that international human rights and the international political systems are the means by which the political aspects of Indian self-determination in North and South America must be achieved. The first half of the book deals with the legal and political status of Indians peoples; the second half involves two case studies. The author shows that what in the 1970s became known as "the new Indian wars," with attacks on Indian rights by the government and transnational corporations, did not simply begin again in that decade but had never ceased. The distinguishing feature of the 1970s was that Indians abandoned their defensive and purely local struggles to take the political offensive on the world stage.
Contents: Geopolitical realities of the pre-colonial Indian world -- Resistance and survival of the centres -- Why the Indian national question today? -- Historical basis of the Indian national question.