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The American Indian and the Problem of History | 
 enlarge | Creator: Calvin Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0195038568
Dewey Decimal Number: 970.00497
EAN: 9780195038569
ASIN: 0195038568
Publication Date: January 22, 1987
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The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos was very different from the anthropocentric perspective that came to dominate Western thinking. Each of the eighteen authors herein wrestles with the phenomenon that in writing about Indians and whites in concert scholars are perforce trying to mesh two very different structures and systems of reality and knowledge--two fundamentally different cosmologies--which in fact do not really fit together. In essays written especially for this volume, each scholar confronts the problem from his or her distinct experience as historian, anthropologist, professional writer, Native or non-Native American. This in not a book about methodology; it probes far deeper than that. It questions whether formal Western history has the philosophical power and imagination to enable scholars to write about life and world societies who were conceived in history, who did not willingly launch themselves out onto an historical trajectory, and who performed in the Western vision and errand of history only through coercion. Here, then, is a study of the "metaphysics" of writing Indian-white history.
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Excellent resource in Native American History July 7, 2001
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This book was a major eye opener for me on the idea of "Indian" history. Like many Americans, you think of Indians in the historical context - war paint, horses, and feathers. Do you want to think again? Read Micael Dorris' essay "Indians on the Shelf".This book challenges any pre-conceived notions. I found it enjoyable as well as humbling. I highly recommend this for anyone who wants to think again - think again about history and the part Native Americans played in it. And the trouble white historians have had when dealing with them. Many of the essays are written by Native Americans about themselves and the trouble history has in addressing their part in it.
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