Spirit Wars

Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-520-21987-8
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: University of California Press

Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British, nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-century struggles for native people's spiritual integrity and freedom. Each chapter deals with a specific dimension of the relationship between native peoples and non-native institutions, and together these topics yield a new understanding of the forces directed against the underpinnings of native cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niezen, Ronald

Weitere Mitwirkende

Burgess, Kim

Begay, Manley

Fast, Phyllis

Lambert, Valerie Long

Wilcox, Michael V.

Perley, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Indigene Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

I. Introduction

2. The Conquest of Souls

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

Epidemics and the "Black Robes" of New France

Puritans and "Praying Indians" in New England

Prelude to Nation Building

The Pequots' Conversion to Christianity,
by Kim Burgess

3. Learning to Forget

Enlightenment and Evolutionism

The Origins of the Indian Residential School

Residential Education in Canada

The Hidden Catastrophe

The Way of the Dine Still Sustains Us,
by Manley Begay Jr.

4· Medical Evangelism

Contrasting Styles of Healing

Mission Programs, Federal Intervention, and Regional
Autonomy

Sorrow and Forgetting

Hearing Voices: Gwich'in Athabaskan
Perceptions of Spirit Invasion and Recovery,
by Phyllis Fast

5. The Politics of Repression

The Ghost Dance Religion and the Suppression
of Prophecy

The Potlatch Laws

The Peyote Religion and Its Enemies

Transgressions of Sacred Space

Native Spiritual Traditions and the Tribal State:

The Oklahoma Choctaws in the Late Twentieth Century,
by Valerie Long Lambert

6. The Collectors

Ethnological Collecting

Desecration and the Growth of Museums

Bones and Spirits

Repatriation

Dialogue or Diatribe? Indians and
Archaeologists in the Post-NAGPRA Era,
by Michael Wilcox

7. Apostles of the New Age

Wild Men of Ideas

The Oral and the Written

Invention and Authenticity

Suffering and Redemption

Medicine Wheelers and Dealers,
by Bernard C. Perley

8. Conclusions

References Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald Niezen is Research Scholar in the History Department, University of Winnipeg, and is currently engaged in field research with the Pimicikamak Cree Nation. He has worked with a number of native communities in northern Canada and has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.