ebooks The Religious Dimensions of Confucianism (Suny Series in Religious Study) by Rodney L. Taylor in History

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Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history—the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men; women; and children in 1863—has been contested; forgotten; and remembered.At dawn on January 29; 1863; Union-affiliated troops under the command of Col. Patrick Connor were brought by Mormon guides to the banks of the Bear River; where; with the tacit approval of Abraham Lincoln; they attacked and slaughtered nearly three hundred Northwestern Shoshoni men; women; and children. Evidence suggests that; in the hours after the attack; the troops raped the surviving women—an act still denied by some historians and Shoshoni elders. In exploring why a seminal act of genocide is still virtually unknown to the U.S. public; Kass Fleisher chronicles the massacre itself; and investigates the National Park Service's proposal to create a National Historic Site to commemorate the massacre—but not the rape. When she finds herself arguing with a Shoshoni woman elder about whether the rape actually occurred; Fleisher is forced to confront her own role as a maker of this conflicted history; and to examine the legacy of white women "busybodies."“…can teach much to readers interested in the politics of history and historical commemoration … [Fleisher’s] text provokes and cajoles readers in an attempt to offer a ‘more self-reflexive narrative.’” — Law and History Review“This is a very troubling book. As the author intended it to be. As it should be … [Fleisher] lures the reader into her spiraling meditation on the relativity of ‘truth;’ history; feminism; and—most important of all—storytelling itself.” — Southern Humanities Review “The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History does raise important questions that historians need to address. Kass Fleisher reminds us that forgetting Bear River is; perhaps; as much of a tragedy as the massacre itself.” — Western Historical Quarterly"Fleisher's background as a novelist situates her outside of the academic coterie that writes and validates history. She is what Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor might call a storier; and she puts her skills to work by crafting a book that integrates elements of journalism; historical scholarship; memoir; and feminist criticism." — Rain Taxi"In this remarkable book; Fleisher exposes and analyzes perhaps the best concealed mass rape in the U.S. experience. Her probing analysis forces us to consider how racism and sexism have converged to silence victims; protect abusers of power; and advance the interests of colonialism." — Maria Bevacqua; author of Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault"This is a troubling book in the way that any stirring-up troubles surfaces; whether surface understandings; feelings; memories; or the wounds that mark the white space of conventional history like strangled words. These are stories you feel; which Fleisher has felt; stirrings and troublings that flow from the wounds of the raped and dead; over space and time; eventually becoming a dark blanket from which; again and again; a dreamer awakens and walks forth. We are the dreamer awakening; we are the massacred; ours are these stirring stories." — Michael Joyce; author of Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions"The most intriguing dimension is the thrust; from a fascinating variety of viewpoints; to achieve redemption—a great and signal effort encompassing and; however awkwardly; transcending race and ethnicity; religion and non-religion; tribal generations and tribal factions and; very basically; the skeletal hand of History." — Hunter Gray; activist and author (as John R. Salter Jr.) of Jackson; Mississippi