Origins of North American Dropout Culture

Ron Sakolski     1994     382p     6 x 9

An absolutely incredible subversive history of america and many of its inhabitants attempts to subvert race and have a healthier relationship with nature. Viewed through cracks in the cartographies of control, including ‘tri-racial isolate’ communities, buccaneers, ‘white Indians,’ black Islamic movements, the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, the Métis nation, scandalous eugenics theories, rural hippie communes, and many other aspects of North American autonomous cultures.

These are ‘hurt’ copies from the publisher. Covers are damaged (usually torn or missing pieces), but insides and spine are clean, crisp and brand new.

Table of Contents

Preface by Ron Sakolsky

Part I. Homage to Hugo Prosper Leaming-Bey
1. lines for the tribe of ben ishmael / John Knoepfle
2. The Ben Ishmael Tribe: Fugitive Nation of the Old Northwest / Hugo Prosper Leaming
3. Lost Ancestors: An Introduction to Pooch Van Dunk / Peter Lamborn Wilson
4. Indian Heritage / Pooch Van Dunk
5. Owning Difference / Gail Tremblay

Part II. Discovering Our Ancestors: The Hidden History of North America
6. Wounded Knee / Meridel Le Sueur
7. Legend of the Great Dismal Maroons / James Koehnline
8. Caliban’s Masque: Spiritual Anarchy and the Wild Man in Colonial America / Peter Lamborn Wilson
9. Cornelius Plockhoy and the Beginnings of the American Communal Tradition / Timothy Miller
10. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century / Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh
11. “Anarchy” in the American Revolution / David Porter
12. Henry Tufts, Land Pirate / Neal Keating
13. Keep Your Powder Dry: Two Insurrections in Post-Revolutionary America / Paul Z. Simons
14. Transform and Rebel: The Calico Indians and the Anti-Rent War / Thom Metzger
15. The Iroquois Influence on Women’s Rights / Sally Roesch Wagner
16. Gone to Prophetstown: Rumor and History in the Story of Pan-Indian Resistance / Rachel Buff
17. The African-Seminole Indians / Doug Sivad
18. A New Nation in Their Hearts: The Historical Evolution of the Metis People / Richard Kees
19. Return from Without: Louis Riel and Liminal Space / Darren S. Wershler-Henry
20. Beneath the Tundra, the Permafrost (A Few Thoughts on Barrenness) / Jordan Zinovich

Part III. Imagining Futures Past
21. Trickster / Joy Harpo
22. 1992 (Part 1) / Guillermo Gómez-Pena
23. Manifest Manners: The Long Gaze of Christopher Columbus / Gerald Vizenor
24. The Dream of Injun Joe: A Page from the Alcatraz Seminars / Jack Forbes
25. The Downfall of Disease-Giver / Carlos Cortez

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