From Colonialism to Denial of California Genocide to Misrepresentations

2013/12/04 by James V. Fenelon, Clifford E. Trafzer · 41 citations
Social Sciences · #Latin American and Latino Studies #Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies #Genocide #Indigenous #Misrepresentation #Colonialism #Sovereignty #Denial #Criminology #Political science #Autonomy #Sociology #Law #Ethnology #Politics

paper · doi:10.1177/0002764213495045

published in American Behavioral Scientist 58(1), 3-29 (SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

Indigenous peoples’ complex analytical issues include historical misrepresentation, struggles over sovereignty and autonomy, and Euro-American “conquest” including invasion, genocide, culturicide, and coercive assimilation, ranging over half a millennium of invasion and colonization. Perhaps the most critically contentious of these issues is genocide. We review historical construction of racial formation and cultural domination, focus on California genocide of Native peoples, and present articles in this special issue as means of understanding these processes and proposing future directions for indigenous studies.

Citations

• Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power
• Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
• Voyage of Domination, "Purchase" as Conquest, Sakakawea for Savagery: Distorted Icons from Misrepresentations of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World.
• Murder State

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• Denialism [wikipedia]