Churchill, Ward,

A little matter of genocide : holocaust and denial in the Americas, 1492 to the present / by Ward Churchill. - xix, 531 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-506) and index.

Foreword: What Every Indian Knows -- Preface -- Introduction: Encountering the American Holocaust: The Politics of Affirmation and Denial -- Assaults on Truth and Memory: Holocaust Denial in Context -- Lie for Lie: Linkages between Holocaust Deniers and Proponents of the "Uniqueness of the Jewish Experience in World War II" -- Deconstructing the Columbus Myth: Was the "Great Discoverer" Italian or Spanish, Nazi or Jew? -- Genocide in the Americas: Landmarks from North and South America, 1492-1992 -- "Nits Make Lice": The Extermination of North American Indians, 1607-1996 -- Cold War Impacts on Native North America: The Political Economy of Radioactive Colonization -- The United States and the Genocide Convention: The Saga of an Outlaw State, 1948-1988 -- Defining the Unthinkable: Towards a Viable Understanding of Genocide -- Bibliography -- Index.

0872863239 9780872863231

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Indians, Treatment of--History--North America
Indians of North America--Government relations
Genocide--History--North America


United States--Race relations
North America--Politics and government

E91 / .C47 1997

970.00497