Responding to anti-Indianism in America, the wide-ranging perspectives culled in Unlearning the Language of Conquest present a provocative account of the contemporary hegemony still at work today, whether conscious or unconscious. Four Arrows has gathered a rich collection of voices and topics, including: Waziyatawin Angela Cavender Wilson's Burning Down the House: Laura Ingalls Wilder and American Colonialism, which probes the mentality of hatred woven within the pages of this iconographic children's literature; David N. ...
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Responding to anti-Indianism in America, the wide-ranging perspectives culled in Unlearning the Language of Conquest present a provocative account of the contemporary hegemony still at work today, whether conscious or unconscious. Four Arrows has gathered a rich collection of voices and topics, including: Waziyatawin Angela Cavender Wilson's Burning Down the House: Laura Ingalls Wilder and American Colonialism, which probes the mentality of hatred woven within the pages of this iconographic children's literature; David N. Gibb's The Question of Whitewashing in American History and Social Science, featuring a candid discussion of the spurious relationship between sources of academic funding and the types of research allowed or discouraged; and Barbara Alice Mann's Where Are Your Women? Missing in Action, displaying the exclusion of Native American women in curricula that purport to illuminate the history of Indigenous Peoples.
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