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Transmitted Trauma and "Absent Memory" in James Welch's The Death of Jim Loney

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Lemberg
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 67-81
Description
Argues that James Welch's novel The Death of Jim Loney presents a way to understand how genocide is represented as a catastrophic event and a recurrent condition and denial as a culturally specific response to trauma. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 67.
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Troubling History, Troubling Law: The Question of Indigenous Genocide in Canada

Alternate Title
Arts in Action ; no. 1
Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Adam Muller
Description
Discusses the meaning of genocide and whether or not genocide occurred based on two underlying issues. Chapter 3 from Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide edited by Scott W. Murray.
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Troubling the Path to Decolonization: Indian Residential School Case Law, Genocide, and Settler Illegitimacy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leslie Thielen-Wilson
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 29, no. 2, 2014, pp. 181-197
Description
"In this paper, I argue that Indian Residential School (IRS) litigation, and the emphasis on "cultural loss" or genocide, threatened to expose the illegitimacy of Canada's claim to sovereignty and the settler collective's occupancy of Indigenous lands today".
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Unlearning the Legacy of Conquest: Possibilities for Ceremony in the Non-Native Classroom

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Virginia Kennedy
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Special Issue on Teaching Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony, 2004, pp. 75-82
Description
Discusses the use of Leslie Mormom Silko's novel Ceremony in non-Native classrooms to teach the scope of past genocide and awareness of contemporary Native issues.
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Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kevin Annett
Louie Lawless
Description
Full version (1 hr. 48 min.) of documentary about abuse at residential schools which won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and Best Director for an International Documentary at the New York International Film Festival. Based on Annett's book Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust.
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Unsettling Ourselves: Reflections and Resources for Deconstructing Colonial Mentality: A Sourcebook Compiled by Unsettling Minnesota

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Derrick Jensen
Wicanhpi Iyotan Win
Scott Demuth
Waziyatawin
Dee Brown ... [et al.]
Description
Collection of commentaries based on excerpts from works such as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, What Does Justice Look Like, Indians 'R' Us: Culture and Genocide, The Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.
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Weaving the History of Despair, Resistance, and Hope: Acoma Poet Simon Ortiz Writes Environmental Justice

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 3rd, 1999
Native American Symposium ; 4th, 2001
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine
Description
Examines the link between environmental injustice, racism and cultural genocide; and discusses the importance of creating a nature based culture that is both environmentally sustainable and socially just.
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Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Guenter Lewy
Commentary, vol. 118, no. 2, September 2004, pp. 55-63
Description
Provides a definition of genocide and argues that the vast majority of Native Americans died of diseases.
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What Ma Lach’s Bones Tell Us: Performances of Relational Materiality in Response to Genocide

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maria Regina Firmino-Castillo
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 31-62
Description
Author examines three different tenets of colonial thought, “that some persons are things, that matter is inert, and that some humans are autonomous of an ecological matrix,” through the lens of art-based projects that responded to the Guatemalan counter-insurgency war (1960—1996).
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When History Is Myth: Genocide and the Transmogrification of American Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, Special Issue on Research Case Studies, 2005, pp. 113-118
Description
Looks at myth-based "history" associated with genocide, and the response of Native Americans to the violence and brutality perpetuated by such history.
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White Lies, Native Revisions: The Legacy of Violence in the American West

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Legg
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 331-340
Description
Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.
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Wicozani Wakan Ota Akupi (Bringing Back Many Sacred Healings)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Blue Bird
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 252-257
Description
Author offers some perspective on the process of colonization in the period between 1849 and 1890 and on everything that was lost in in that time to the Sioux peoples; also discusses the current moves towards healing, resurgence and cultural reclamation.
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Wounded Hearts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gabrielle Tateyuskanskan
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, p. 351
Description
Poem that deals with the 1862 removal of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota from their lands, their forced march to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling, and the execution of 38 men by the United States government following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862.”
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