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| Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America. Here, he explores the history of holocaust and denial in this hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and continuing on into the present. He frames the matter by examining both "revisionist" denial of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust and the opposing claim of its exclusive "uniqueness," using the full scope of what happened in Europe as a backdrop against which to demonstrate that genocide is precisely what has been-and still is- carried out against American Indians. Churchill lays bare the means by which many of these realities have remained hidden, how public understanding of this most monstrous of crimes has been subverted not only by its perpetrators and their beneficiaries but by institutions and individuals who perceive advantages in the confusion. In particular, he outlines the reasons underlying the United States' 40-year refusal to ratify the Genocide Convention, as well as the implications of the attempt to exempt itself from compliance when it finally offered its "endorsement." In conclusion, Churchill proposes a more adequate and coherent definition of the crime as a basis for identifying, punishing, and preventing genocidal practices, wherever and whenever they occur. War Churchill (enrolled Keetoowah Cherokee) is a professor of American Indian Studies with the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder. A member of the American Indian Movement since 1972, he has been a leader of the Colorado Chapter for the past fifteen years. Among his previous books have been Fantasies of the Master Race, Struggle for the Land, Since Predator Came, and From a Native Son |
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