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Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto
This visionary manifesto, first published in 1999, has significantly improved our understanding of First Nations' issues. Taiaiake Alfred calls for the indigenous peoples of North America to move beyond their 500-year history of pain, loss, and colonization, and move forward to the reality of self-determination. A leading Kanien'kehaka scholar and activist with intimate kn...more
Paperback, 202 pages
Published
August 22nd 2008
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published June 10th 1999)
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Indigenous/Native/First Nation peoples of the (earth), or anyone interested
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Written by Taiaiake Alfred of the Mohawk nation, this book clearly defines Political Relationships between the state. Taiaiake calls for Indignous independance, but urges us (indignenous people) not to recreate a structure that is based on westeren thought and ideas (from a western framwork). What he is calling for is OUR form of Government, recalling traditional indigneous forms of Governance. We will never be independant unless we not only have the traditional culture but the traditional for...more
Powerful, unflinching, and passionate. Worth a read, though I imagine Alfred could have produced the same argument in a much shorter essay.
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Read selections of this for a Sociology course. Recommended for fans of post-colonial theory.
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