Holding the Indigenous Voice Hostage

Autor/in	DeSpain, Matt
Titel	Holding the Indigenous Voice Hostage
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 27 (2003) 1-2, S.172-176 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; United States History; Weapons; American Indians; Museums; Racial Bias; Power Structure; Foreign Policy; Whites; Indigenous Populations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weapon; Waffe; American Indian; Indianer; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Außenpolitik; White; Weißer; Sinti und Roma
Abstract	It is a point well documented in American history, and well remembered, that the firearm has been a favorite tool wielded by Euroamericans to subdue, colonize, and silence Native Americans since the two groups first met. Anyone exercising a modicum of intellect can easily compile their own mental count of past atrocities by racist-minded, gun-toting Euroamericans against America's Indigenous peoples. Some incidents that come to mind are obvious ones: the removal of southeastern tribes westward or the Dine's Long Walk eastward, both the nineteenth- and the twentieth-century Wounded Knee episodes, Bacon's Rebellion, Prophetstown, Horseshoe Bend, the killing fields of California, Sand Creek, the Washita, the murders of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, and so on. Beyond divesting Native Americans of their lands, such nefarious behavior was also intended to silence their voices. And as reprehensible as these past atrocities were (and still are), what is as morally objectionable today (and what many may not realize) is that even in the outer rings of academia the firearm remains an instrument of colonization by white power elites that keeps the Native American voice silent; and that alone is disturbing. The gun is still put to such troubling use at institutions masquerading as centers of academic worth and legitimacy known as gun museums. In this article, the author discusses how and why gun museums remain intellectual back eddies where certain segments of society intentionally and emphatically silence Indigenous voices. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10