Call for Change the Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality.
- Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (261 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Glossary; 1. The Complexity of American Indian History; 2. Native Ethos of "Seeing" and a Natural Democracy; 3. The First Dimension of Indian-White Relations; 4. The Second Dimension of Interacting Indian-White Relations; 5. The Third Dimension of Physical and Metaphysical Reality; 6. A Cross-Cultural Bridge of Understanding; 7. Oral Tradition and Language; 8. Power of Earth and Woman; 9. Coming Full Circle; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
For too many years, the academic discipline of history has ignored American Indians or lacked the kind of open-minded thinking necessary to truly understand them. Most historians remain oriented toward the American experience at the expense of the Native experience. As a result, both the status and the quality of Native American history have suffered and remain marginalized within the discipline. In this impassioned work, noted historian Donald L. Fixico challenges academic historians-and everyone else-to change this way of thinking. Fixico argues that the current discipline and practice of.
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