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A Little Matter of Genocide
  

A Little Matter of Genocide (Paperback)

by Ward Churchill (Other Contributor)
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  • Paperback: 531 pages
  • Publisher: City Lights Books (Jan 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0872863433
  • ISBN-13: 978-0872863439
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,957,840 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An incomparable volume., 21 Aug 1999
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Funny thing. The earlier reviewer who alleged that Ward Churchill "has changed tribes several times" forgot to mention where, or what tribes he's supposedly claimed. I've got copies of things he's published and interviews he's given all the way back to 1969, and can find no evidence that he's ever identified as anything other than "Cherokee," "Creek/Cherokee" and, for the past few years, "Keetoowah Cherokee" (which is of course a particular Cherokee Band, to which Bill Clinton does NOT belong).

One is certainly entitled to one's opinion of Churchill, but lies are not opinions. They're just lies.

So much for the "issue" of Churchill's ethnicity, as if it had bearing on either the merits of his argument or the eloquence with which he presents it in the first place.

A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDE is a superb book, far more comprehensive and better documented than Stannard's AMERICAN HOLOCAUST (note that the reviewer who complained about inaccurate footnotes offered no examples).

This is probably the best and most important work yet from one Native North America's best and most important writer/scholars.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS THE MOTHER LODE!, 14 Jul 1999
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FROM: The Aeolian Kid TO: All Amazon.com Readers DATE: 7-13-1999, 9:09 PM ITEM: A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDE

Dear Reader,

Listen, if you want to read one book that puts it all into the proper perspective, you gotta read this book. You GOTTA! It's a good grab. Not only does it cover the 500 years from 1500 to 2000; it covers them in depth. The footnotes alone are worth the price of the book. I took two courses on The Native Indigenous People of the Western Hemisphere while in college. Almost everything I learned (and things I didn't learn) on the Indians in those two college courses is covered in this book. My professor, Dr. George Luter of the History Dept. of U-Mass, Lowell, thinks very highly of this book. Indeed, he recommended it to another one of my professors, Dr. Levon Chorbajian of the Sociology Dept. of U-Mass, Lowell, who thought it was so great that he used it as one of the books we had to read for his Sociology of Genocide class. After reading the book himself, Dr. Chorbajian told the whole class: "I've probably read between three and four thousand books in my life. I would have to say that this book by Ward Churchill is in the top 50! It's excellent!" Read this book, and you will truly understand the meaning of the word "genocide;" everything will finally appear in its appropriate and proportional perspective. When it comes to "man's inhumanity to man," there have been no greater victims than the Native Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. There is only one solution to this madness: awareness. This book increases your awareness. Ward Churchill should be commended for a great work of justice to the people of this continent. Unless and untill we all realise that we are ALL ONE and "all related," and that we are all responsible for making right what was done wrong by those "wasichu" (white men) who came before us, we will never be on good terms with the Indians. The first thing we can do is to give them back their sacred lands that was stolen from them: THE BLACK HILLS. Untill that is done, it's all more of the same old horseshit! Read this book and cry, get mad, and get up and DO something about it! This book is all you need to put a fire in your belly that will glow like a firefly in heat!

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An awe-inspiring effort, 13 Oct 1998
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Though several chapters of the book are recycled writings of Churchill, taken as a whole, I believe this book will take its place with the greatest efforts ever devoted to the subject of just what happened to the natives that populated the New World. I am writing my own book that covers this subject matter, among others, and reading Churchill has been an awesome experience. I have also studied this area of history at some length, though I cannot pretend to tie Churchill's shoes in native studies. But we have trod much of the same material and sources, and his analysis and synthesis of such a dauntingly broad range of material is little short of incredible. Oh yes, he has made mistakes here and there, expected in a work with over a thousand footnotes, but I would stack Churchill up against any historian in the business on the issue of the native experience at the hands of the white man. Unfortunately, the establishment cannot afford to have too many of the brainwashed masses hear voices like Churchill's, so it will likely have an obscure fate...until we wake up as a people. I salute Churchill's tireless efforts on behalf of justice and truth.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Reframing
It has to be said that by and large, criticisms leveled at Ward Churchill's ALMG are conveniently vapid in details. Read more
Published on 27 Jul 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars Shoddy scholarship obscuring the truth about genocide
In this lump of a book, Churchill attempts to cover the important issue of genocide against Native Americans. Read more
Published on 22 Jul 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars Yawn....Holocaust? Duh!
A Little Matter of Genocide is rehashed boring crap that Churchill continues to recycle. Exclusivity on the word Holocaust does not belong to the Jews but damn, do we need a... Read more
Published on 10 Feb 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars more frightening than fiction.
A must read for every American. Who's next to stand in the way of progress?
Published on 12 Dec 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars A revelation of the suppressed history of American Genocide.
Merriam-Webster defines Holocaust as,"a thorough destruction, especially by fire." The key word is especially, not exclusively. Read more
Published on 17 Feb 1998

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