A Separate Country

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn of the Crow Creek Sioux Nation is a writer, poet, and professor emerita of Native American studies at Eastern Washington University. Among her many honors is the Oyate Igluwitaya award given by Native university students in South Dakota to those who "aid in the ability of The People to see clearly in the company of each other." Klappentext Elizabeth Cook-Lynn takes academia to task for its much-touted notion that 'postcoloniality' is the current condition of Indian communities in the United States. She finds the argument neither believable nor useful - at best an ivory-tower initiative on the part of influential scholars! at worst a cruel joke. In this fin de career retrospective! Cook-Lynn gathers evidence that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world! mired in poverty and disenfranchised both socially and politically. Zusammenfassung Elizabeth Cook-Lynn takes academia to task for its much-touted notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of Indian communities in the United States. She finds the argument neither believable nor useful-at best an ivory-tower initiative on the part of influential scholars! at worst a cruel joke. In this fin de career retrospective! C...

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn takes academia to task for its much-touted notion that 'postcoloniality' is the current condition of Indian communities in the United States. She finds the argument neither believable nor useful - at best an ivory-tower initiative on the part of influential scholars, at worst a cruel joke. In this fin de career retrospective, Cook-Lynn gathers evidence that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world, mired in poverty and disenfranchised both socially and politically.

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn takes academia to task for its much-touted notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of Indian communities in the United States. She finds the argument neither believable nor useful-at best an ivory-tower initiative on the part of influential scholars, at worst a cruel joke. In this fin de career retrospective, C...