Genocide of the mind : new Native American writing / edited by MariJo Moore ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Moore, MariJo
Language:English
Published: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, [2003], ©2003.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Biography.
Indigenous peoples in popular culture > North America.
Indigenous peoples as mascots > North America.
American literature > Indigenous authors.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xvi, 352 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • pt. 1. Keeping the home fires burning in urban circles. To carry the fire home / Kathryn Lucci-Cooper
  • Blood flowing in two worlds / Mary Black Bonnet
  • Home : urban and reservation / Barbara Helen Hill
  • Indian in a strange land / Wiley Steve Thornton
  • Everyone needs someone / MariJo Moore
  • Unci (Grandmother) / Ben Geobe
  • From Brooklyn to the reservation : five poems / Maurice Kenny
  • pt. 2. Young American Indians : the need to reclaim identity. The genocide of a generation's identity / Gabriel Horn
  • We, the people : young American Indians reclaiming their identity / Lee Francis
  • Indians in the attic / Joel Waters
  • America's urban youth and the importance of remembering / Dave Stephenson
  • pt. 3. Native languages : where will they go from here? Song, poetry, and language : expression and perception / Simon J. Ortiz
  • X. Alatsep (written down) / Joseph Dandurand
  • Don't talk, don't live / Carol Snow Moon Bachofner
  • Iah enionkwatewennahton'se' : we will not lose our words / James Aronhiotas Stevens
  • The spirit of language / Neil McKay
  • A different rhythm / H. Lee Karalis
  • Names by which the spirits know us / Sean Lee Fahrlander
  • pt. 4. Indians as mascots : an issue to be resolved. Symbolic racism, history, and reality : the real problem with Indian mascots / Kimberly Roppolo
  • Indian as mascots : perpetuating the stereotype / Alfred Young Man
  • Invisible emblems : empty words and sacred honor / Steve Russell
  • pt. 5. Who we are, who we are not : memories, misconceptions, and modifications. Yellow Woman and a beauty of the spirit / Leslie Marmon Silko
  • She's nothing like we thought / Molly McGlennen
  • Manitowac : spirit place in Anishinaabe / Tim Hays
  • Pyramids, art, museum, and bones : some brief memories / David Bunn Martine
  • Identification pleas / Eric Gansworth
  • Raising the American Indian community house / Mifaunwy Shunatona Hines
  • The secret of breathing / Steve Elm
  • The Indians are alive / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
  • "Indians," solipsisms, and archetypal holocausts / Paula Gunn Allen
  • Buffalo medicine : an essay and a play / David Seals
  • Postcolonial hyperbaggage : a few poems of resistance and survival / Carter Revard
  • About American Indian Artists, Inc. / Diane Fraher.