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Tearing down the ‘buckskin curtain’: domestic policy-making and Indigenous intellectuals in the Cold War United States and Canada




AuthorsHumalajoki Reetta

PublisherTaylor & Francis

Publication year2019

JournalCold War History

Volume20

Issue2

First page 223

Last page242

Number of pages20

ISSN1468-2745

eISSN1743-7962

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2019.1673738

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/43798716


Abstract

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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