Research Catalog

Title

Conquest : sexual violence and American Indian genocide / Andrea Smith ; foreword by Winona LaDuke.

Author

Smith, Andrea, 1966-

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

LaDuke, Winona.

Description

xviii, 244 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies 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 1880s 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 rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence." -- Back cover.

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-229) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Winona LaDuke -- Introduction -- Sexual violence as a tool of genocide -- Boarding school abuses and the case for reparations -- Rape of the land -- "Better dead than pregnant" : the colonization of Native womens' reproductive health -- "Natural laboratories" : medical experimentation in Native communities -- Spiritual appropriation as sexual violence -- Anticolonial responses to gender violence -- U.S. empire and the war against Native sovereignty -- Endnotes -- Resource guide -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780822360384 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0822360381 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780822374817 (e-book)
• 0822374811 (e-book)

LCCN

2015004774

OCLC

• ocn902803327
• SCSB-1817071

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library