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This book is the first comprehensive study of the driving force behind Native political activism, and the only scholarly treatment of North American Indian politics which integrates an explicitly Native perspective. With a broad historical scope rich in detail, and drawing on the particularexperience of the Mohawks of Kahnawake, it offers an explanation of Indian and Inuit political activism focusing on the importance of traditional values and institutions in shaping Native responses to the state.The book explains the recent rise of a militant assertion of sovereignty on the part of Native people in terms of three major factors: the existence of alternative institutions in the body of the nation's traditional culture; the self-conscious development of an alternative identity; and apersistent pattern of negative interaction with the state. It differs from other analyses focusing on similar factors in that it views nationalism not as a movement which activates in response to external factors, but as a persistent feature of political life which manifests itself in either alatent or active form in response to the interaction of the three factors discussed in the model. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I was intrigued by the attitude towards the change of status of women who married non-Natives in 1985 with Bill C-31. I had not realised that this was such a contentious issue in native communities as up to now I have only heard about the change as a good thing, from a Mohawk friend who had been previously unable to live on reserve after marrying a European man. From the Kahnawake perspective, the change was a bad one, likely to put huge pressure on community resources. As a result, they imposed their own membership rules, insisting that mixed marriages would result in a loss of status and residency rights (whatever the gender of the Mohawk party) and that only people with at last 50% Mohawk blood would be able to join the community.
This seems harsh and in many ways contrary to Mohawk tradition (and I'm still not sure I'm comfortable with it) - but as the man points out, it should be up to the community to determine its own membership criteria. But for a group that seems to pride itself on being at the vanguard of native politics, it does seem to be a remarkably conservative approach.
At times I got a bit bogged down in the overly academic language of the book. I don't know why, but the word 'hegemony' gets on my nerves after a while. But generally this was an interesting read about a group of Mohawks I previously knew nothing about. ( )