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HEDING
OF
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Kahnawake Mohawk Politics
and the Rise Of Native Nationalism
that to be born Indian is to tx»rn into m»litics. HEEDLV;
TYE is the first comprehensive stu(tv Of the pas-
sion behind Native mAitical activism, and the first scholarty treaunent
integating an explicitly Native perspectiv•e. Draw•ing on the experience
Of the Mohawks Of Kahnawake, Gerald Alfred presents three major
tors keys in explaining the Of militant nationalism among Native
peoples•. the existence Of alternative traditional institutioms indigenous
to Native cultures; the persistence Of an alternative Native identity, and
a longstanding pattern or negative interaction with the state. The text
constructs a framework in which others can appreciate the concepts,
values, and ideals Of Native peoples' struggle for sovereignty.
GERALD R. ALFRED is an Assistant Professor
in the Department or political Science and
Director Of the Centre for Native Education
at Concordia University in Montreal.
Oxford University Press
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