- Hardcover: 152 pages
- Publisher: Carleton University Press (Oct 8 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 077350950X
- ISBN-13: 978-0773509504
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #774,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"It was with great pleasure that I received Sioui's book, and I read it with as much interest as profit. Nothing is more important for the future of our studies than to know that our Amerindian colleagues are ready and determined to take on their own anthropology and their own history. Sioui's work is a brilliant demonstration of this undertaking." Claude Lévi-Strauss. "Well written and well presented ... It was with pleasure that I read For An Amerindian Autohistory. A literate and well-argued plea for a reassessment of Canadian history from the Amerindian point of view ... Sioui's scholarship is very sound ... His most original contribution is his reliance on the traditions of his people and oral testimony ... He is deeply imbued with his Huron culture." Olive Dickason, Department of History, University of Alberta.
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Sioui has produced a work not only of metahistory but of moral reflections. He contrasts Euroamerican ethnocentrism and feelings of racial superiority with the Amerindian belief in the "Great Circle of Life" and shows that human beings must establish intellectual and emotional connections with the entire living world if they hope to achieve abundance, quality, and peace for all. Sioui is proud to be a Huron and an Amerindian and is fully aware of the injustices that the aboriginal people of North America have suffered - and continue to suffer - at the hands of Euroamericans. He is convinced that the greatness of Amerindians does not lie only in the past but that Native peoples will play an even more important role in the future by providing ideas essential to creating aviable way of life for North America and the world. While this is a polemical work, Sioui never descends to recrimination or vituperative condemnation, even when that might seem justified. Instead, he has given us a polemic that is written at the level of philosophy.
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Over a 400-year period beginning in 1492, the aboriginal population of the American continent shrank from 112 million to approximately 5.6 million. Read the first page
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challenge your ethnocentrist views...,
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This review is from: For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic (Hardcover)
this book was great, and I would recommend it for all north americans. we need to start respecting first nations for their resiliance, and reading this book is a good step. Canadians need to think about the cultural anarchy they live in. Whether you agree with Sioui or not, at least you'll now where you are in the spectrum of CDN ethnocentrism.
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