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Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

An eclectic collection of poetry, prose, and politics, Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a text, a narrative, a song, a story, a history, a testimony, a witnessing. Above all, it is a fiercely intelligent, brave, and sobering work that re-examines and interrogates our nation’s past and the distorted way that its history has been written. In topics including recent debates over issues of environmental justice, the contradictions surrounding the Crazy Horse Monument, and the contemporary portrayal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition as one of the great American epic odysseys, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn stitches together a patchwork of observations of racially charged cultural materials, personal experiences, and contemporary characterizations of this country’s history and social climate. Through each example, she challenges the status quo and piques the reader’s awareness of persistent abuses of indigenous communities. The voices that Cook-Lynn brings to the texts are as varied as the genres in which she writes. They are astute and lyrical, fierce and heartbreaking. Through these intonations, she maintains a balance between her roles as a scholar and a poet, a popular teacher and a woman who has experienced deep personal loss. A unique blend of form and content that traverses time, space, and purpose, this collection is a thoroughly original contribution to modern American Indian literature. Moreover, it presents an alternative narrative of the nation’s history and opens an important window into the political challenges that Natives continue to face.

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208

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University of Arizona Press

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0816550026

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9780816550029

New Indians, Old Wars

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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New Indians, Old Wars

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Presents a collection of essays that describe the settling of the American West and the conflicts between the encroaching whites and the native peoples.

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246

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University of Illinois Press

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0252031660

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9780252031663

Anti-Indianism in Modern America

A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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Anti-Indianism in Modern America

A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

In this powerful and essential work, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confronts the politics and policies of genocide that continue to destroy the land, livelihood, and culture of Native Americans. Anti-Indianism in Modern America tells the other side of stories of historical massacres and modern-day hate crimes, events that are dismissed or glossed over by historians, journalists, and courts alike. Cook-Lynn exposes the colonialism that works both overtly and covertly to silence and diminish Native Americans, supported by a rhetoric of reconciliation, assimilation, and multiculturalism. Comparing anti-Indianism to anti-Semitism, she sets the American history of broken treaties, stolen lands, mass murder, cultural dispossession, and Indian hating in an international context of ethnic cleansing, "ecocide", and colonial oppression.Cook-Lynn also discusses the role Native American studies should take in reasserting tribal literatures, traditions, and politics and shows how the discipline has been sidelined by anthropology, sociology, postcolonial studies, and ethnic studies. Asserting the importance of a "native conscience"--a knowledge of the mythologies, mores, and experiences of tribal society--among American Indian writers, she calls for the expression in American Indian art and literature of a tribal consciousness that acts to assure a tribal-nation people of its future. Passionate, eloquent, and uncompromising, Anti-Indianism in Modern America concludes that there are no real solutions for Indians as long as they remain colonized peoples. Native Americans must be able to tell their own stories and, most important, regain their land, the source of religion, morality, rights, and nationhood. As long as public silence accompanies the outlaw maneuvers that undermine tribal autonomy, the racist strategies that affect all Americans will continue. It is difficult, Cook-Lynn concedes, to work toward the development of legal mechanisms against hate crimes, in Indian Country and elsewhere in the world. But it is not too late.

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248

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University of Illinois Press

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0252026624

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9780252026621

In Defense of Loose Translations

An Indian Life in an Academic World

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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In Defense of Loose Translations

An Indian Life in an Academic World

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

In Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir that bridges the personal and professional experiences of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Having spent much of her life illuminating the tragic irony of being an Indian in America, this provocative and often controversial writer narrates the story of her intellectual life in the field of American Indian studies. Drawing on her experience as a twentieth-century child raised in a Sisseton Santee Dakota family and under the jurisdictional policies that have created significant social isolation in American Indian reservation life, Cook-Lynn tells the story of her unexpectedly privileged and almost comedic "affirmative action" rise to a professorship in a regional western university. Cook-Lynn explores how different opportunities and setbacks helped her become a leading voice in the emergence of American Indian studies as an academic discipline. She discusses lecturing to professional audiences, activism addressing nonacademic audiences, writing and publishing, tribal-life activities, and teaching in an often hostile and, at times, corrupt milieu. Cook-Lynn frames her life's work as the inevitable struggle between the indigene and the colonist in a global history. She has been a consistent critic of the colonization of American Indians following the treaty-signing and reservation periods of development. This memoir tells the story of how a thoughtful critic has tried to contribute to the debate about indigenousness in academia.

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258

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496212363

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9781496212368

From the River's Edge

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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From the River's Edge

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Orignally published: New York: Arcade Pub., 1991.

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185

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Living Justice Press

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1937141136

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9781937141134

A Separate Country

Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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A Separate Country

Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Essays questioning the academic notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of American Indian communities. Argues that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world; revises the popular view of the American West and explores the forgotten history of Indigenousness in America"--Provided by publisher.

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0896727254

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9780896727250

Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays

A Tribal Voice

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays

A Tribal Voice

By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

This provocative collection of essays reveals the passionate voice of a Native American feminist intellectual. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a poet and literary scholar, grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. She asks questions of critical importance to tribal people: who is telling their stories, where does cultural authority lie, and most important, how is it possible to develop an authentic tribal literary voice within the academic community? In the title essay, “Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner,” Cook-Lynn objects to Stegner’s portrayal of the American West in his fiction, contending that no other author has been more successful in serving the interests of the nation’s fantasy about itself. When Stegner writes that “Western history sort of stopped at 1890,” and when he claims the American West as his native land, Cook-Lynn argues, he negates the whole past, present, and future of the native peoples of the continent. Her other essays include discussion of such Native American writers as Michael Dorris, Ray Young Bear, and N. Scott Momaday; the importance of a tribal voice in academia, the risks to American Indian women in current law practices, the future of Indian Nationalism, and the defense of the land. Cook-Lynn emphasizes that her essays move beyond the narrowly autobiographical, not just about gender and power, not just focused on multiculturalism and diversity, but are about intellectual and political issues that engage readers and writers in Native American studies. Studying the “Indian,” Cook-Lynn reminds us, is not just an academic exercise but a matter of survival for the lifeways of tribal peoples. Her goal in these essays is to open conversations that can make tribal life and academic life more responsive to one another.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299151433

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9780299151430

Book's by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

New Indians, Old Wars

New Indians, Old Wars

Anti-Indianism in Modern America

Anti-Indianism in Modern America

In Defense of Loose Translations

In Defense of Loose Translations

From the River's Edge

From the River's Edge

A Separate Country

A Separate Country

Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays

Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays

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