Conquest
Subtitle: sexual violence and American Indian genocide
By: Andrea Smith ; foreword by Winona LaDuke
Contributors: LaDuke, Winona
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Durham, NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780822360384; 9780822374817
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Violence; Gewalt; Crimes against; Colonization; Indianerin; Treatment of Indians; Social conditions; Sexueller Missbrauch; History; Indian women
Other titles: Sexual violence and American Indian genocide
Description: "In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence -- perpetrated by the state and by society at large -- and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-Natives; environmental racism; and population control. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women -- the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and to survive rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence"--Back cover.
Notes: Foreword statement of responsibility from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gustavus Myers Outstand Book Award, 2005
Table of contents: title: Sexual violence as a tool of genocide; title: Boarding school abuses and the case for reparations; title: Rape of the land; title: "Better dead than pregnant" : the colonization of Native womens' reproductive health; title: "Natural laboratories" : medical experimentation in Native communities; title: Spiritual appropriation as sexual violence; title: Anticolonial responses to gender violence; title: U.S. empire and the war against Native sovereignty; title: Endnotes; title: Resource guide; title: Index.