Research Catalog

Title

A tortured people : the politics of colonization / Howard Adams.

Author

Adams, Howard, 1921-2001

Publication

• Penticton, BC : Theytus Books, [1995]
• ©1995

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Details

Description

219 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Indians of North America > Canada > Government relations
• Inuit > Canada > Government relations
• Métis > Government relations
• Indians, Treatment of > Canada
• Indigenous peoples > Canada > Government relations
• Indigenous peoples > Government relations
• Indians of North America > Government relations
• Indians, Treatment of
• Inuit > Government relations
• Métis > Government relations
• Indigenes Volk
• Ethnische Identität
• Politik
• Kolonisation
• Indiens > Canada > Relations avec l'État
• Inuits > Canada > Relations avec l'État
• Métis > Relations avec l'État
• Canada
• Kanada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219).

Contents

Part One Local nature of colonization -- Colonization in our back yard -- Poverty grip on Metis -- Part Two Sources of colonization -- Eurocentrism: myths of Aboriginal history -- Mainstream ideology: the control of colonized minds -- Indian and Metis slavery in New France -- Part Three Challenge to colonial oppression -- Speaking out to white oppressors -- Metis/Indian struggles of the 1960s -- Criticism of Metis historiography -- Metis history from Native reality -- Challenge to colonized culture -- Part Four Maintaining colonization under neocolonialism -- Constitutional colonialism -- Neocolonialism -- Indigenous collaborators in third world colonization -- Metis/Indian organizations as new oppressors -- State methods of Aboriginal control.

ISBN

• 0919441777
• 9780919441774

LCCN

96150910

OCLC

• ocm35871710
• 35871710
• SCSB-2131617

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library