A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Tearing down the ‘buckskin curtain’: domestic policy-making and Indigenous intellectuals in the Cold War United States and Canada
Authors: Humalajoki Reetta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication year: 2019
Journal: Cold War History
Volume: 20
Issue: 2
First page : 223
Last page: 242
Number of pages: 20
ISSN: 1468-2745
eISSN: 1743-7962
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2019.1673738
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/43798716
North American Indigenous peoples remain overlooked in Cold War scholarship, despite being tangibly impacted by this global conflict. This article presents a study of four foundational texts, to argue that the Cold War shaped the introduction of new destructive Indian policies in the United States and Canada, which aimed to eradicate the special legal status of Indigenous peoples. Moreover, Indigenous activist intellectuals like Vine Deloria, Jr. and Harold Cardinal successfully embedded their writing in the Cold War context of decolonisation and anti-communism to challenge harmful federal policy and the image of the United States and Canada as upholding ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’.
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