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In her article about the Kurds, Lauren Erickson depicts the nature of these peoples, their traditional subsistence strategies, and their political and social organizations, as well as the opposing nations and environmental issues that had threatened their survival up to the time of the book’s publication in 2001. The Kurds are an important group to discuss because they, like other ethnic groups, have been continually repressed by the countries they inhabit. Yet, the Kurds are unique in the fact that they have no nation-state, and no nation that they have inhabited in the Middle East recognizes them as citizens. This paper examines the cultural genocide of the Kurds that resembles the affronts made against numerous Native American tribes since the beginnings of our own nation. The key distinction between the case of the Kurds and that of the Native Americans is that the Kurds, as one particular culture, have been attacked by numerous nation states that control the geographic boundaries where they have historically resided. The Kurds have made some changes in their beliefs and ways of life to accommodate the changing world around them. ...
The Kurds consist of mostly Muslims who are non-Arabic and have their own language and culture but do not have a political state of their own. ... Since they do not have a state or even a region that they can declare as their own, they simply call their home ‘Kurdistan’ or ‘home of the Kurds’ [Erickson 2001:97].
Approximate Word count = 1133
Approximate Pages = 4.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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