Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy - An Annotated Bibliography

For more than a decade scholars have debated the question of whether American Indian confederacies, primarily the Iroquois, helped influence the formation of U.S. basic law. The idea has sparked lively debate in the public arena as well, with Canadian diplomat Durling Voyce-Jones contending it shows a paradigm shift in our thinking, Patrick Buchanan calling it idiocy, and George Will saying it's fiction. For the first time, this bibliography brings together some 450 citations on the debate. The work describes the debate in the words of one of its major participants, Bruce E. Johansen, author of three other books on the subject.

The bibliography also takes the reader back to suggestions of the idea long before the contemporary debate. Lakota author Charles Eastman brought up the subject in 1919, Mohawk teacher Ray Fadden developed it in the 1940s, and John F. Kennedy touched on it in 1960. Bringing the debate to its full flower in the present day, the bibliography illustrates both fervent support and equally emphatic denial in the academy and the public press. The book is both a scholarly tool and a lively exploration of issues bearing on the study of history and multiculturalism.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Bibliographic Entries
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1975-1986
1900-1974
Index

About the author

Bruce E. Johansen is Frederick W. Kayser Professor of Communication and Native American Studies, University of Nebraska. He is the author of dozens of books, including The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future, The Global Warming Desk Reference, and The Native Peoples of North America. He is series editor of Praeger's Native America: Yesterday and Today.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Elliott Johansen, Johansen Bruce E.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.1996
• EAN: 9780313300103
• ISBN: 978-0-313-30010-3
• Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in American History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; USA, American History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LAW / Constitutional, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, C 1700 To C 1800, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Bibliographies, catalogues