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Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building

Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British, nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-century struggles for native people's spiritual integrity and freedom. Each chapter deals with a specific dimension of the relationship between native peoples and non-native institutions, and together these topics yield a new understanding of the forces directed against the underpinnings of native cultures.

Country	USA
Author	Ronald Niezen
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520923430
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	274
PublicationDate	2000-08-28
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2000-08-28
Studio	University of California Press

Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building