Title Spirit wars : Native North American religions in the age of nation building / Ronald Niezen ; with contributions by Manley Begay, Jr. [and others].

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
	©2000

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.
Contents	1 Introduction 2 The Conquest of Souls 3 Learning to Forget 4 Medical Evangelism 5 The Politics of Repression 6 The Collectors 7 Apostles of the New Age 8 Conclusions.
Summary	Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British, nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-c.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Indians of North America -- Canada -- Religion.
	Indians of North America.
	Canada.
	Religion.
	Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations.
	Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada.
	Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
	Evangelistic work -- Canada.
	Evangelistic work.
	Genocide -- Canada.
	Genocide.
	Canada -- Race relations.
	Race relations.
	Canada -- Politics and government.
	Politics and government.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Burgess, Kim.
Other Form:	Print version: Niezen, Ronald. Spirit wars. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000 0520209850 0520219872 (DLC) 99053116 (OCoLC)42667827
ISBN	9780520923430 (electronic book)
	052092343X (electronic book)
	1417523336 (electronic book)
	9781417523337 (electronic book)
	9780520209855 (alkaline paper)
	0520209850 (alkaline paper)
	9780520219878 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0520219872 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	1597349135
	9781597349130

Title Spirit wars : Native North American religions in the age of nation building / Ronald Niezen ; with contributions by Manley Begay, Jr. [and others].

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