The Missing Peace
The original Americans which were the Native Americans like all human communities, were people of both peace and war. These text however shows the battles of the Native Americans the victories as well as their defeats and their sufferings. There is a missing piece to the Native American story, the challenge is to recover it. Each of the five hundred Native American tribes or nations had its own distinctive peace tradition. The invasion by the whites challenged and subverted the tradition of the peace heritage. The authors felt that American history has been based too much on violence and not enough on the peace efforts. Has carnage and inhumanity been the only focus on American history? For the majority, yes. It has a great deal to do with the way history is taught in the classroom. Text books consistently speak of great turning points in American history which generally are results of war, taking of land, and most importantly the killing of man. There has always been little focus on the peace aspect of history. The purpose of this text is to begin the process of altering U.S. history from the tyranny of our violent imaginations. These thoughts and imaginations built from stories of liberty and freedom
This book also deals with the war for our nations independence. This war was most sacred event in the United States history. The war for independence is represented greatly by the battles fought and won to gain independence over Great Britain in the American Revolution. However, were these battles really necessary? Was all that fighting to the death the only rel way for America to gain it's complete independence? The authors of the Missing Peace attempt to shed light on this topic. They bring up the point that sometimes nations can gain independence without war. In the nineteenth century Canada achieved separation from Great Britain gradually but most important peacefully. Towards the end of the twentieth century Blacks in South America took over power from an extremely oppressive white minority regime without a major war. There may also have been peaceful alternatives to the bloodshed that occurred with British Empire in the 1760's and 1770's (Juhnke). I'm not sure if I agree that there was or was not, but I do agree that these sort of topics are equally important for discussion as the facts of war and killing are. accomplished through violence and war. Constructing our understanding of who we are, and our meaning and purpose as a country and the reasons for evaluating past events and the options we feel are available. The authors of this book James C. Junnke and Carol M. Hunter, challenge the myth of redemptive violence in American history. Their challenge consists of three main goals. The first is to demonstrate that violence in the United States has done more harm than good, has often encouraged rather than discouraged violence. The second goal is to offer a different viewpoint of history. To
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Approximate Word count = 1200
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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