Say we are nations : documents of politics and protest in indigenous America since 1887 /
edited by Daniel M. Cobb.
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xv, 317 pages).
- H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: a reflexive historiography -- My own nation (1899) / Keep our treaties (1906) / We can establish our rights (1913) / That the smaller peoples may be safe (1918) / Another Kaiser in America (1918) / Our hearts are almost broken (1919) / I want to be free (1920) / I am going to Geneva (1923) / It is our way of life (1924) / As one Indian to another (1934) / Fooled so many times (1934) / Let us try a New Deal (1934) / If we have the land, we have everything (1934)/ Albert Sandoval, Fred Nelson, Frank Cadman, and Jim Shirley -- We have heard your talk (1934) / Eliminate this discrimination (1941) / I am here to keep the land (1945) / We are still a sovereign nation (1949) / I had no one to help me (1953) / We need a boldness of thinking (1954) / We are citizens (1954) / This resolution "gives" Indians nothing (1954) / We are Lumbee Indians (1955) / The Mississippi Choctaws are not going anywhere (1960) / A human right in a free world (1961) / This is not special pleading (1961) / I can recognize a beginning (1962-1964) / To survive as a people (1964) / We were here as independent nations (1965) / Is it not right to help them win their rights? (1965) / We will resist (1965) / I want to talk to you a little bit about racism (1968) / A sickness which has grown to epidemic proportions (1968) / Our children will know freedom and justice (1969) / We are an honorable people: Can you say the same? (1973) / We have the power (1974) / For the continuing independence of native nations (1974) / For human rights and fundamental freedoms (1977) / Why have you not recognized us as sovereign people before? (1977) / Our red nation (1978) / These are inherent rights (1978) / Get the record straight (1987) / This way of life: The peyote way (1992) / Let Catawba continue to be who they are (1992) / Return the power of governing (1994) / We already know our history (1996) / We would like to have answers (2003) / The sovereign expression of native self-determination (2003) / I will not rest till justice is achieved (2005) / An organization, a club, or is it a nation (2007) / The Gwich'in are caribou people (2011) / I want to work for economic and social justice (2012) / I could not allow another day of silence to continue (2012) / Indian enough (2013) / We will be there to meet you? (2013) / Call me human (2015) / Conclusion: forgotten/remembered. Queen Lili.Auokalani -- Chitto Harjo -- Cherokee Freedmen -- Arthur C. Parker -- Carlos Montezuma -- No Heart, and others -- Porfirio Mirabel -- Deskaheh -- All-Pueblo Council -- Henry Roe Cloud -- George White Bull and Oliver Prue -- Christine Galler -- Joe Chitto -- Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich -- Martin Cross -- Hopi Traditionalist Movement -- Jake Herman -- D'Arcy McNickle -- National Congress of American Indians -- Helen Peterson and Alice Jemison -- D.F. Lowery -- Phillip Martin -- Edward Dozier -- American Indian Chicago Conference -- Jeri Cross, Sandy Johnson, and Bruce Wilkie -- Clyde Warrior -- Vine Deloria Jr. -- Angela Russell -- Nisqually Nation -- Tillie Walker -- Committee of 100 -- Indians of all tribes -- The Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy -- John Trudell -- International Indian Treaty Council -- Geneva Declaration -- Marie Sanchez -- Diné, Lakota, and Haudensaunee traditional governments -- The Longest Walk statement -- James Hena -- Reuben Snake -- E. Fred Sanders -- Wilma Mankiller -- Armand Minthorn -- Russell Jim -- J. Kēhaulani Kauanui -- Elouise Cobell -- Osage Constitutional Reform testimony -- Sarah Agnes James -- Susan Allen -- Deborah Parker -- Alex Pearl -- Armando Iron Elk and Faith Spotted Eagle -- Lyla June Johnston --
"In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Cobb shows how tribal leaders, intellectuals, and activists deployed a variety of protest methods over more than a century to demand Indigenous sovereignty. As these documents show, Native peoples have adopted a wide range of strategies in this struggle, invoking 'American' and global democratic ideas about citizenship, freedom, justice, consent of the governed, representation, and personal and civil liberties while investing them with indigenized meanings."--
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