Conquest
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Conquest

Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Conquest

Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

About this book

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.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Foreword-Winona LaDuke
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide
  6. Chapter 2: Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations
  7. Chapter 3: Rape of the Land
  8. Chapter 4: "Better Dead than Pregnant:" The Colonization of Native Womens' Reproductive Health
  9. Chapter 5: "Natural Laboratories:" Medical Experimentation in Native Communities
  10. Chapter 6: Spiritual Appropriation as Sexual Violence
  11. Chapter 7: Anticolonial Responses to Gender Violence
  12. Chapter 8: U.S. Empire and the War Against Native Sovereignty
  13. Endnotes
  14. Resource Guide
  15. Index