Conquest : sexual violence and American Indian genocide /
Andrea Smith ; [foreword by Winona LaDuke].
- c2005.
- xviii, 244 pages ; 22 cm
Foreword statement of responsibility from cover. Republished by Duke University Press, 2015. Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-221)
Sexual violence as a tool of genocide -- Boarding school abuses and the case for reparations -- Rape of the land -- "Better dead than pregnant" : the colonization of Native womens' reproductive health -- "Natural laboratories" : medical experimentation in Native communities -- Spiritual appropriation as sexual violence -- Anticolonial responses to gender violence -- U.S. empire and the war against Native sovereignty -- Endnotes -- Resource guide -- Index.
"In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence -- perpetrated by the state and by society at large -- and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-Natives; environmental racism; and population control. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women -- the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and to survive rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence"--Back cover.
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Indian women--Crimes against--North America. Indian women--Colonization--North America. Indian women--Social conditions.--North America Indians, Treatment of--History.--North America Violence--North America.
North America--Race relations. North America--Politics and government.