Speaking Truth in the Teeth of Power: Lectures on Globalization, Colonialism, and Native North America

by Ward Churchill

This hard-hitting collection of twelve interviews and previously unpublished lectures delves deep into the current state of Native North America and expands on the Indigenist political perspective popularized by Professor Ward Churchill. He is now nationally known for his controversial remarks concerning the culpability of the functionaries administering US economic and military policies, and Speaking Truth in the Teeth of Power is the perfect antidote to the smear campaign surrounding On the Justice of Roosting Chickens. The book opens with a lengthy interview conducted by journalist Joshua Frank concerning Churchill's remarks and the back story to the hoopla, which became a national debate in the spring of 2005. Life in Occupied America, delivered in Berkeley, provides a heart-wrenching account of the current state of Native America, and shows the toll that more than five hundred years of genocide in North America has taken on all of its inhabitants. Additional chapters include: Before Predator Came: Reflections on Indigenous Reality, Castles Built on Sand: An Indigenist View of Federal Indian Law, The Next 500 Years, and The Relationship of Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance in North America. Speaking Truth in the Teeth of Power is culled from lectures delivered at Ohio State, The Brecht Forum, Concordia University, and national conferences throughout North America.

512 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2005

About the author

Ward Churchill (Keetowah Cherokee) has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues. He was a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, from 1990 till 2007; a leading member of the American Indian Movement (AIM); and has been a delegate to the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations. He is the author of numerous books, including A Little Matter of Genocide, Fantasies of the Master Race, and Struggle for the Land.