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Summary: Churchill tells it like it is!!
Review: Churchill refuses to let history be told as if native peoples either do not exist, or exist only as mere stage sets for some great movie Western.
READ THIS BOOK and see how only a word like "genocide" can be used to explain the history of U.S. relations with Native Americans, and how this same genocide continues to this day.
Churchill emphasizes the necessary connection those engaged in globalization strugglers in general must forge between their struggles and those of native peoples if they are to be successful.
Clear and concise, An excellent Churchill reader!
I Also recommend "Pacifism as Pathology".
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Summary: His Best Ever
Review: Did I miss something? I though we were supposed to "focus our comments on the product" -- in this case, Ward Churchill's superb "Acts of Rebellion" -- when submitting a review (at least that's what the Amazon review guidelines say). So how is it that a previous reviewer was allowed to indulge in a gratuitous -- and of course anonymous -- smear of the author? Even the sniper admits that Churchill's book is exceptionally well-researcher and -written, and that the material therein demands to be read as widely as possible. To then give it a 3-star rating -- a move plainly designed to turn readers away -- PURELY on the basis of personal gripes against the author is, at best, extremely irresponsible. Advice to the reviewer in question: Acquire some integrity. Advice to readers of this review: Read the book.
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Summary: Good writing, but I'm leery of the author...
Review: What a dilemma! What do you do when a book is well-written and well-researched, but you also happen to be aware that the author is uncomfortably steeped in controversies over his own misrepresentation of himself, his occasionally violent behavior toward women and elders, and his crass dismissal of victims of violence through which he justifies the use of violent assault on those regarded as political enemies? (he teased that the 9-11 victims were deserving targets).Well, I guess you try to be honest. You say "This guy writes well!" and "His research is reliable and worth collecting." But then you caution readers that Churchill himself is unsettling to MANY traditional Native people who do not regard him as an authentic representation of an Indian voice or ethic, and you urge readers to research Churchill online in order to distinguish between a skilled collection of scholarship and an individual author whom some may find to be blasphemous to Native traditionalism.
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