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.'
