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Mark Dowie recently retired from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he taught science, environmental reporting, and foreign correspondence. Previously, he was editor-at-large of InterNation, a transnational feature syndicate based in Paris, and before that a publisher and editor mostra altro of Mother Jones magazine. He is the author of seven other books. mostra meno
Opere di Mark Dowie
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society (1990) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 72 copie
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) (2003) — Collaboratore — 45 copie
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If you have the slightest interest in Native sovereignty or Native issues do not be afraid that this book will be written like a textbook. It is not. Mr. Dowie presents the material in a remarkably down to earth manner. I actually found myself turning the pages as if I were reading a fiction book anxious to reach the ending. He breaks down complicated issues into eminently readable chapters about how the Haida Gwaii started, thrived, were decimated by smallpox, recovered and then one day were told they were citizens of Canada whether they liked it or not.
There are chapters at the front of the book and at the end of the book that deal solely with the history of the Haida Gwaii peoples and then how they fought for their sovereignty. In the middle of those chapters is a primer on the European conquest of well, the world and how they treated the Native populations they encountered. I was particularly fond (not) of the tale of the Spanish landing in what is now South America, loudly proclaiming their intentions to those they met and then killing them for not immediately answering back in a language they neither understood nor spoke.
Greed is good?
The book certainly makes you want to go back and revisit what you learned in high school because if you are like me you will come out after reading this book feeling a little bit disgusted with well, let’s just call it Manifest Destiny. None of this can effectively be righted but we can at the least read our history with a little more honesty.
OK – off of the soapbox and back to the book. It certainly left me with feelings of hope for other First Peoples. The Haida Gwaii are willing share their efforts to achieve what some of them never really thought they had lost in the first place. But when a nation tells you that your land is now under its dominion and you must now do things a certain way, issues are going to arise. The people who worked tirelessly for years to allow for a level of sovereignty, if not independence do not want acclaim, in fact they didn’t want personal notoriety, only to be part of a whole nation – sovereign.
It’s a very interesting book. I read it over the course of three evenings. It has given me a lot to think about. It’s well footnoted, lots of appendices and there are several other books I’ll be looking to acquire for later reading.… (altro)