Calvin A Martin

The American Indian and the Problem of History

The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the ...

Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr.

Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination. Presenting a new account of how the Bible's liberationist texts were deployed and disputed at critical junctures in British and American history from the Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement, Exodus and...

In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time

This meditation by an award winning historian calls for a new way oflooking at the natural world and our place in it, while boldly challenging theassumptions that underlie the way we teach and think about both history andtime. Calvin Luther Martin's In the Spirit of the Earth is a provocativeaccount...

The Way of the Human Being

From Native Americans, Europeans learned about corn and beans, toboggans and canoes, and finding their way around an unfamiliar landscape. Yet the Europeans learned what they wished to learn-not necessarily what the natives actually meant by their stories and their lives-says Calvin Luther Martin in...

The Great Forgetting

You're right, the "i" in "Forgetting" is indeed missing. (Look at the book cover, again.) It's been missing ever since Adam named the animals and "annihilated them in their existence as beings." Thus spoke Hegel. Man's sin, alas, included unforeseen collateral damage. The moment he named them, Adam ...

Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade: A Critique of Keepers of the Game

Exploring the motivations of Indians involved in the fur trade, the contributors to this volume challenge the spiritualist interpretation set forth by Calvin Martin in Keepers of the Game, which dismisses the lure of European goods―the power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Ind...

Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade (Campus)

Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, focusing primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.

The Way of the Human Being

The Way of the Human Being

In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time

In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time

The American Indian and the Problem of History

Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade

Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade