A Sovereign People
Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law, and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Published:30th Oct '19
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Selected for the 2021 Donald L. Fixico Award for Best Book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations History
(Volume 2 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and forced assimilation. Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, the works' joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity for the next generations of Cheyenne people. Dividing the story of the Cheyenne Nation into pre- and post-contact, A Sacred People and A Sovereign People lay out indigenously conceived possibilities for employing traditional worldviews to replace unhealthy and dysfunctional ones bred of territorial, cultural, and psychological colonization.
ISBN: 9781682830376
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 500g
312 pages