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Book In Defense of Mohawk Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Pertusati
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 1997-04-24
  • ISBN : 143841594X
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book In Defense of Mohawk Land written by Linda Pertusati and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-04-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1990, a land dispute between the Mohawk territory of Kanehsatake and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada took center stage in the world community, erupting into months of intense and often violent confrontation. Rooted in the historical reality of past injustices, the events of the 1990 Mohawk-Oka conflict epitomized the relationship and struggles which exists between Aboriginal nations, ethnonationalist movements, and the state. By examining the Mohawk-Oka conflict, this book tells a story of struggle and survival during the 1990 invasion by the Quebec provincial police and Canadian army into Mohawk sovereign land. The story is one of an embattled nation's struggle and aboriginal right to determine its political and economic destiny. Through extensive research of archived documents, newspapers, and interviews with leaders and members of the Mohawk Warrior Movement and other central figures in the Mohawk nation, the author demonstrates how politicized ethnicity and ideology can become significant factors in the repertoire of indigenous ethno-nationalist social movements for generating and maintaining social protest.

Book In Defense of Mohawk Land

Download or read book In Defense of Mohawk Land written by Linda Pertusati and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the conflict that exists between the Mohawk Warrior Movement and Canada within the context of the Mohawk nation's struggle for national self-determination.

Book Bridges   Barricades

Download or read book Bridges Barricades written by Trefor Smith and published by . This book was released on 1991* with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mohawk History and Culture

Download or read book Mohawk History and Culture written by Sierra Adare and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers explore the rich history and culture of the Mohawk Nation, including details of the struggles and the successes in both the Mohawk past and the present. The traditions, culture, and language of the Mohawks are being preserved throughout northern New York and Canada, and readers discover the challenges that have been faced to hold on to the ways of life. Fascinating facts, historical artwork, and modern photographs give readers detailed accounts of challenges such as fighting in the American Revolution and working to reclaim their native lands.

Book The Mohawk

    Book Details:
  • Author : David C. King
  • Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
  • Release : 2010-01-30
  • ISBN : 9780761445852
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book The Mohawk written by David C. King and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed look at the The Mohawk from their early history to the modern day.

Book The Mohawk People

Download or read book The Mohawk People written by Ryan Nagelhout and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the easternmost tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Mohawk people were called the "keepers of the eastern door." Their villages were sustained by hunting, fishing, and agriculture, and their people lived in communal dwellings called longhouses. Their lives changed forever with the arrival of European settlers. Readers will learn the history of the Mohawk, including their involvement with the Iroquois Confederacy and their roles in the French and Indian War as well as the American Revolution. The contributions of the Mohawk to modern society, such as the building of the Empire State Building, may surprise readers and encourage them to find out more about this amazing tribe.

Book Mohawk Interruptus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Audra Simpson
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2014-05-27
  • ISBN : 0822376784
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Mohawk Interruptus written by Audra Simpson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism. The Kahnawà:ke Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy. Like many Iroquois peoples, they insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship. Audra Simpson thinks through this politics of refusal, which stands in stark contrast to the politics of cultural recognition. Tracing the implications of refusal, Simpson argues that one sovereign political order can exist nested within a sovereign state, albeit with enormous tension around issues of jurisdiction and legitimacy. Finally, Simpson critiques anthropologists and political scientists, whom, she argues, have too readily accepted the assumption that the colonial project is complete. Belying that notion, Mohawk Interruptus calls for and demonstrates more robust and evenhanded forms of inquiry into indigenous politics in the teeth of settler governance.

Book The Mohawk Warrior Society

Download or read book The Mohawk Warrior Society written by Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of its kind, this anthology by members of the Mohawk Warrior Society uncovers a hidden history and paints a bold portrait of the spectacular experience of Kanien'kehá:ka survival and self-defense. Providing extensive documentation, context, and analysis, the book features foundational writings by prolific visual artist and polemicist Karoniaktajeh Louis Hall (1918–1993)—such as his landmark 1979 pamphlet, The Warrior's Handbook, as well as selections of his pioneering artwork. This book contains new oral history by key figures of the Rotisken'rhakéhte's revival in the 1970s, and tells the story of the Warriors’ famous flag, their armed occupation of Ganienkeh in 1974, and the role of their constitution, the Great Peace, in guiding their commitment to freedom and independence. We hear directly the story of how the Kanien'kehá:ka Longhouse became one the most militant resistance groups in North America, gaining international attention with the Oka Crisis of 1990. This auto-history of the Rotisken'rhakéhte is complemented by a Mohawk history timeline from colonization to the present, a glossary of Mohawk political philosophy, and a new map of Iroquoia in Mohawk language. At last, the Mohawk Warriors can tell their own story with their own voices, and to serve as an example and inspiration for future generations struggling against the environmental, cultural, and social devastation cast upon the modern world.

Book This Land Is MY Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louis Grumet
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-08-03
  • ISBN : 9781614686460
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book This Land Is MY Land written by Louis Grumet and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A regiment of well-armed Mohawk Indians descended from Canada the night of May 13, 1974, repossessing 612-acres of Adirondack wildness to which they claimed aboriginal rights. For three long years, an occasionally violent and perpetually tense standoff between the "radicalized" or "traditionalized" Mohawk, local residents and the New York State Police festered like a ticking time bomb until future Governor Mario M. Cuomo negotiated a precariously balanced truce. Cuomo's solution-which masterfully dealt with the imme-diate problem at hand (getting the Mohawks out of Moss Lake) without resolving, or even addressing, the unresolvable underlying issues (the return of nine million acres of land)-resulted from dozens of volatile negotiating sessions in which Louis Grumet, co-author of This Land is MY Land, was the key envoy. This Land is MY Land is an insider's account of the history and politics that returned a chunk of wilderness to the people who inhabited the region centuries before the Europeans arrived, provided the Mohawk with a new homeland in northern New York and deftly offered the State a face-saving resolution.

Book Skywalkers

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Weitzman
  • Publisher : Flash Point
  • Release : 2014-04-29
  • ISBN : 146686981X
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Skywalkers written by David Weitzman and published by Flash Point. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skyscrapers define the American city. Through a narrative text and gorgeous historical photographs, Skywalkers by David Weitzman explores Native American history and the evolution of structural engineering and architecture, illuminating the Mohawk ironworkers who risked their lives to build our cities and their lasting impact on our urban landscape.

Book Life and Death in Mohawk Country

Download or read book Life and Death in Mohawk Country written by Bruce Elliott Johansen and published by Golden, Colo. : North American Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic, misrepresented "civil war" among the Mohawks of Akwesasne in 1990 was a conflict brought on my decades of white dominance and abuse of Mohawk lands.

Book A Question of Survival

    Book Details:
  • Author : Akwesasne notes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 45 pages

Download or read book A Question of Survival written by Akwesasne notes and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism

Download or read book Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism written by John Borrows and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous traditions can be uplifting, positive, and liberating forces when they are connected to living systems of thought and practice. Problems arise when they are treated as timeless models of unchanging truth that require unwavering deference and unquestioning obedience. Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism celebrates the emancipatory potential of Indigenous traditions, considers their value as the basis for good laws and good lives, and critiques the failure of Canadian constitutional traditions to recognize their significance. Demonstrating how Canada’s constitutional structures marginalize Indigenous peoples’ ability to exercise power in the real world, John Borrows uses Ojibwe law, stories, and principles to suggest alternative ways in which Indigenous peoples can work to enhance freedom. Among the stimulating issues he approaches are the democratic potential of civil disobedience, the hazards of applying originalism rather than living tree jurisprudence in the interpretation of Aboriginal and treaty rights, American legislative actions that could also animate Indigenous self-determination in Canada, and the opportunity for Indigenous governmental action to address violence against women.

Book Struggle for the Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ward Churchill
  • Publisher : City Lights Books
  • Release : 2002-09
  • ISBN : 9780872864146
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Struggle for the Land written by Ward Churchill and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmark work illustrates the history of North American indigenous resistance and the struggle for land rights.

Book By Law or In Justice

Download or read book By Law or In Justice written by Jane Dickson and published by Purich Books. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC) was formed in 1991 in response to the Oka crisis. Its purpose was to resolve and expedite specific claims arising out of promises made to Indigenous nations in treaties, the federal Indian Act, and within other Crown obligations. This book traces the history of Indigenous claims in Canada and the work of the ICC from 1991 until it was decommissioned in 2009. An insider’s account, it is written by long-standing ICC commissioner Jane Dickson, who draws upon the records of the commission and a wealth of research and experience with Indigenous claims and communities to provide an unflinching look at the inquiry process and the parties involved. By Law or In Justice provides a balanced, careful analysis of Canada’s claims policy, the challenges faced by Indigenous claimants, and the legacy of the commission. By documenting the promises made and broken to Indigenous nations, this book also makes a passionate plea for greater claims justice so that true reconciliation can be achieved.

Book Maurice Kenny

    Book Details:
  • Author : Penelope Myrtle Kelsey
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 1438438044
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Maurice Kenny written by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the work of Maurice Kenny, a pivotal figure in American Indian literature from the 1950s to the present.