Ward Churchill

Ward Churchill "is a Creek and enrolled Keetoowah Band Cherokee, professor, longtime Native rights activist, acclaimed public speaker, and award-winning writer. A member of the Governing Council of the American Indian Movement of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement, he also serves as Professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies for the University of Colorado. He is a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee and has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations (as a Justice/Raporteur for the 1993 International People's Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians), and is an advocate/prosecutor of the First Nations International Tribunal for the Chiefs of Ontario." wiki


 * Editorial Collective, Theory in Action
 * Advisory Board, Transformative Studies Institute

Selected Publications

 * Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America. Arbeiter Ring, 1998. (See Critique by George Lakey.)
 * From a Native Son: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1985-1995. South End Press: Boston, 1996.
 * Since Predator Came: Notes on the Struggle for American Indian Liberation. Aigis Press: Littleton, CO, 1995.
 * Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America. Common Courage Press: Monroe, ME, 1994.
 * Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America. Common Courage Press: Monroe, ME, 1993.
 * Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall (Eds.) Cages of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment in America (Maisonneuve Press, 1992).
 * Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians. Common Courage Press: Monroe, ME, 1992.
 * The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret War Against Domestic Dissent, (co-authored with Jim Vander Wall). South End Press: Boston, 1991.
 * Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement(published with Jim Vander Wall) South End Press: Boston, 2002.

Criticism

 * Carol Moore, "The Return of Street Fighting Man: The Pathology of the New Progressive Violence" (2006).

Related Commentary

 * Dave Lindorff, "Hooray for Juries! A Courtroom Victory for Ward Churchill and Academic Freedom of Speech", Counterpunch, April 3-5, 2009.
 * Paul D’Amato, "Pacifism and War", International Socialist Review, Issue 24, July–August 2002.
 * Alex Kahn, "Gandhi and the Myth of Non-Violent Action"
 * Farooq Sulehria, "Mahatma: the fake prophet", Viewpoint, April 8, 2011.
 * Randall Amster,"Anarchism and Nonviolence: Time for a ‘Complementarity of Tactics’", ''Waging Nonviolence, July 14, 2010.
 * Review: How Nonviolence Protects the State
 * Review of "How Nonviolence Protects the State"

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Peter Gelderloos