TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Andrea
AU  - LaDuke,Winona
TI  - Conquest : : sexual violence and American Indian genocide / 
SN  - 9780822360384
AV  - E98.W8  S6223 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - [Durham, NC]
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Indian women
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - North America
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Indians, Treatment of
KW  - History
KW  - Violence
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -