Struggle For The Land

''Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization'' is a book by Ward Churchill . It is a collection of essays on the efforts of Native Americans In The United States and In Canada to maintain their Land Tenure Claims against Government and Corporate infringement. Equating Colonization with Genocide and Ecocide , the author provides examples of Resistance .

Beginning with an overview of the impact of legal doctrines established by the United States and Canada on Native peoples, and moving on to explore a series of case studies indicative of the effects of domination "by North America's settler-states," the book concludes with a discussion paper offering a scenario for an alternate future.

PUBLISHING INFORMATION

It was first published with the subtitle ''Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America'' by , it was resubtitled and released in a revised and expanded edition by Arbeiter Ring Publishing ( Winnipeg , ISBN 1894037049). City Lights Publishers ( San Francisco ) published it in 2002 as a 460-page hardcover (ISBN 0872864154) and paperback (ISBN 0872864146).

SYNOPSIS

As its foreword, the book features a poem by Jimmie Durham . The preface is by Winona LaDuke and poems from John Trudell 's '' Living In Reality '' appear as preludes to each section. Russell Means ' 1982 platform for president of the Oglala people is included as an appendix. Maps of Indian land claims/treaty areas are included. The book is dedicated "for my mother."

The mostly previously published essays collected provide a history of Native American struggle for decolonization provided through the examples of the Haudenosaunee in Upstate New York , the Lakotas on the northern Plains , the Lubicon Cree in northern Alberta , and the Diné and Newe ( Western Shoshone ) in the upper Sonoran . The case is made that Uranium Mining , Coal Stripping , Hydropower generation, and Water Diversion are Ecocidal as well as Genocidal , and that the ecological damage poses a threat to all North Americans.

Churchill also discusses the Native North American diaspora caused by their displacement.

: "Not only the people of the land are being destroyed, but, more and more, the land itself. The nature of native resistance to the continued onslaught of the invading industrial culture is shaped accordingly. It is a resistance forged in the crucible of a struggle for survival." —from the introduction

AWARDS

The book won the Gustavus Myers Award for Literature on Human Rights .

CONTENTS (TO THE REVISED EDITION)

Foreword ''by Jimmie Durham

Buying Time

Preface ''by Winona LaDuke

Succeeding into Native North America

Introduction ''by Ward Churchill

The Indigenous Peoples of North America

::Part I: The Law

The Tragedy and the Travesty

::Part II: The Land

Struggle to Regain a Stolen Homeland

Iroquois

Upstate New York

The Black Hills Are Not For Sale

Lakota

1868 Treaty

Genocide in Arizona

Navajo

Hopi

The Struggle for Newe Segobia

Shoshone

Last Stand at Lubicon Lake

Ecocide

Canadia

::Part III: Other Fronts

Geographies of Sacrifice

Radioactive

The Water Plot

Like Sand in the Wind

Diaspora

United States

::Part IV: An Alternative

I Am Indigenist

Appendix ''by Russell Means and Ward Churchill''

TREATY

Oglala

Index

CONTROVERSY

Churchill has been accused of "mischaracterization" of historical fact in an essay in the original edition [http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3838645,00.html]. For the contents of "The Water Plot," accusations of Plagiarism have been leveled against Churchill [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42834].

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''Struggle for the Land'' at the publisher's site.

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