Life In Occupied America
ISBN-13: 9781902593722
Contributor(s): Ward Churchill
Subjects: Indigenous Peoples
Publisher: Ak Press
Publisher Imprint: Ak Press
Publication Date: 01-12-2003
Format: CD-Audio
Availability: In stock
£9.99
About the book
The systematic elimination and impoverishment of the American Indians didn't end with Columbus or smallpox-laden blankets. Why else, despite owning' some of the most valuable land in North America do the remaining two million Native inhabitants live in conditions of third world poverty - a life expectancy averaging under 50; 60% unemployment; a per capita income on the Pine Ridge Reservation of £2000 a year? Here, the pre-eminent Native activist/scholar passionately unveils the 500-year conquest of a people and demonstrates its continuation today.'