Kahnawake Indian Reserve (Québec) -- History, Québec -- Kahnawake Indian Reserve, Québec -- Montréal Region, Mohawk -- Politics and government, Mohawk -- Government relations, Indigenous peoples -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal Region -- Politics and government, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations, Indigenous peoples -- Government relations, Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government, Québec, Mohawk 

"This book is the first comprehensive study of the driving force behind Native political activism, and the only scholarly treatment of North American Indian politics which integrates an explicitly Native perspective. With a broad historical scope rich in detail, and drawing on the particular experience of the Mohawks of Kahnawake, it offers an explanation of Indian and Inuit political activism focusing on the importance of traditional values and institutions in shaping Native responses to the state.

The book explains the recent rise of a militant assertion of sovereignty on the part of Native people in terms of three major factors: the existence of alternative institutions in the body of the nation's traditional culture; the self-conscious development of an alternative identity; and a persistent pattern of negative interaction with the state. It differs from other analyses focusing on similar factors in that it views nationalism not as a movement which activates in response to external factors, but as a persistent feature of political life which manifests itself in either a latent or active form in response to the interaction of the three factors discussed in the model."--Amazon.ca. 

vii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. 

Contents:
Reconceptualizing nationalism
People of the flint, sign of the cross: the origins of Kahnawake's political culture
The dragon of discord: Kahnawake in the modern era
Back to the woods: tradionalism in Kahnawake
Three Mohawk chiefs
The structure of government in Kahnawake
Interactions and their impact: conflict over territory and membership
The rise of Native nationalism.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.