Conquest
Subtitle: sexual violence and American Indian genocide
By: by Andrea Smith.
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Indian women -- Crimes against -- North America; Indian women -- Colonization -- North America; Indian women -- North America -- Social conditions; Indians, Treatment of -- North America -- History; Violence -- North America; North America -- Race relations; North America -- Politics and government
Description: In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American 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 1990s 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 rap and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; 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; title: Natural laboratories; title: Spiritual appropriation as sexual violence; title: Anti-colonial responses to gender violence; title: U.S. empire and the war against Native sovereignty.