One of the most compelling ‘lessons’
of exile is the realization of exactly how deeply we human beings are
interconnected.
A Death in the Family
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter
1 – The ‘South Boundary’
Chapter 2 – May 26, 1998
Chapter 3 – “Race”
“Race”
and internalization of colonial identity
“Race”
and legal status: American apartheid?
“Race”
and eugenics
The
American Anthropological Association and “Race”
“Race”
and legal jurisdiction
Chapter 4 - Apartheid at Red Lake
The
I.R.A. and tribal courts
Indian
court jurisdiction
Dead
“Indians”
Wub-e-ke-niew
and “race”
Chapter 5 – Exile
Narratives
of exile
Chapter 6 – Context
Chapter 7 - Background
a
bit of personal description
“the
rez”
A
statistical description: population
Several
Vantages
Politics
and land
Colonial
transformations and genocide
Chapter 8 – Acknowledging reality
Archival
research and B.I.A. documents
B.I.A.
documents, 1972
National
media and ‘hot’ documents
“Criminal
possession” of information?
B.I.A.
documents, mid 1980s
Research
‘on the rez’
Chapter 9 – Red Lake retrospective
The
‘Red Lake genealogies’
Compiling
genealogical information
Genocide
Chapter 10 – the hidden Holocaust
Four million “Indians”
“highly
emotionally charged” … vigorous ‘denial’
‘Hot’
documents
Who
Are The “Indians”?
Chapter 11 - Indians are not the Ahnishinahbæótjibway
History
The
Métis
The
Ahnishinahbæótjibway
Genealogy
The
Indians
The
Ahnishinahbæótjibway
Culture
and Identity
The
Métis
The
Ahnishinahbæótjibway
Ecological Infrastructure
The
Métis
The
Ahnishinahbæótjibway
Patterns of Interaction with Western
European Colonizers
The
Métis
The Ahnishinahbæótjibway
Language
The
Métis
The
Ahnishinahbæótjibway
Religion
The
Ahnishinahbæótjibway
The
Métis
Chapter 12 – Colonial Structures and
Western Hegemony
Indians
and the Indian Mystique
Chapter 13 - Genocide
Academic
advocacy for human rights?
Chapter 14 – An Outside Retrospective
– Journey to Red Lake
Journey
to Red Lake
I.
Introduction
II.
Wub-e-ke-niew’s and Clara’s Home
III.
The “Sugar Bush”
IV.
Their Ahnishinahbæótjibway
strategy
V.
“Indians”
VI.
The timeliness of this work
A.
Sovereignty
B.
Cultural Preservation
VII.
A longer-range strategy
Chapter 15 – Language from an Ahnishinahbæótjibway
perspective
A
workshop on language
Language
from an Ahnishinahbæótjibway
perspective
Conclusion
Appendix I
