Say we are nations : documents of politics and protest in indigenous America since 1887 /
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015] ©2015 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 317 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11908358 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a reflexive historiography
- My own nation (1899) / Queen Liliʻuokalani
- Keep our treaties (1906) / Chitto Harjo
- We can establish our rights (1913) / Cherokee Freedmen
- That the smaller peoples may be safe (1918) / Arthur C. Parker
- Another Kaiser in America (1918) / Carlos Montezuma
- Our hearts are almost broken (1919) / No Heart, et al.
- I want to be free (1920) / Porfirio Mirabel
- I am going to Geneva (1923) / Deskaheh
- It is our way of life (1924) / All-Pueblo Council
- As one Indian to another (1934) / Henry Roe Cloud
- Fooled so many times (1934) / George White Bull and Oliver Prue
- Let us try a New Deal (1934) / Christine Galler
- If we have the land, we have everything (1934)/ Albert Sandoval, Fred Nelson, Frank Cadman, and Jim Shirley
- We have heard your talk (1934) / Joe Chitto
- Eliminate this discrimination (1941) / Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich
- I am here to keep the land (1945) / Martin Cross
- We are still a sovereign nation (1949) / Hopi Traditionalist Movement
- I had no one to help me (1953) / Jake Herman
- We need a boldness of thinking (1954) / D'Arcy McNickle
- We are citizens (1954) / National Congress of American Indians
- This resolution "gives" Indians nothing (1954) / Helen Peterson and Alice Jemison
- We are Lumbee Indians (1955) / D.F. Lowery
- The Mississippi Choctaws are not going anywhere (1960) / Phillip Martin
- A human right in a free world (1961) / Edward Dozier
- This is not special pleading (1961) / American Indian Chicago Conference
- I can recognize a beginning (1962-1964) / Jeri Cross, Sandy Johnson, and Bruce Wilkie
- To survive as a people (1964) / Clyde Warrior
- We were here as independent nations (1965) / Vine Deloria Jr.
- Is it not right to help them win their rights? (1965) / Angela Russell
- We will resist (1965) / Nisqually Nation
- I want to talk to you a little bit about racism (1968) / Tillie Walker
- A sickness which has grown to epidemic proportions (1968) / Committee of 100
- Our children will know freedom and justice (1969) / Indians of all tribes
- We are an honorable people: Can you say the same? (1973) / The Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy
- We have the power (1974) / John Trudell
- For the continuing independence of native nations (1974) / International Indian Treaty Council
- For human rights and fundamental freedoms (1977) / Geneva Declaration
- Why have you not recognized us as sovereign people before? (1977) / Marie Sanchez
- Our red nation (1978) / Diné, Lakota, and Haudensaunee traditional governments
- These are inherent rights (1978) / The Longest Walk statement
- Get the record straight (1987) / James Hena
- This way of life: The peyote way (1992) / Reuben Snake
- Let Catawba continue to be who they are (1992) / E. Fred Sanders
- Return the power of governing (1994) / Wilma Mankiller
- We already know our history (1996) / Armand Minthorn
- We would like to have answers (2003) / Russell Jim
- The sovereign expression of native self-determination (2003) / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
- I will not rest till justice is achieved (2005) / Elouise Cobell
- An organization, a club, or is it a nation (2007) / Osage Constitutional Reform testimony
- The Gwich'in are caribou people (2011) / Sarah Agnes James
- I want to work for economic and social justice (2012) / Susan Allen
- I could not allow another day of silence to continue (2012) / Deborah Parker
- Indian enough (2013) / Alex Pearl
- We will be there to meet you? (2013) / Armando Iron Elk and Faith Spotted Eagle
- Call me human (2015) / Lyla June Johnston
- Conclusion: forgotten/remembered.