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This seminal collection of essays provides a devastating portrait of the condition of Native America. From chronicling the genocide committed by European invaders, to exposing the insidious means by which contemporary politicians and academics perpetuate the physical and cultural destruction of American Indians, Churchill’s incisive analysis and carefully documented critique comprise a demand for action. These 18 essays serve as an excellent overview of the breadth and depth of Churchill’s scholarship. Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Cherokee) is a professor of American Indian studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A member of the leader-ship council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado, he is a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. A prolific writer and lecturer, he has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 20 books. Fasting Day: Thanksgiving Day by Dennis Brutus Preface: Since Genocide Began by Haunani-Kay Trask Introduction: Only Indians Help Indians 1. Remembering Bob Thomas: His Influence on the American Indian Liberation Struggle 2. Deconstructing the Columbus Myth Was the "Great Discoverer" Italian or Spanish, Nazi or Jew? 3. Since Predator Came: A Survey of Native North America Since 1492 4. Genocide: Toward a Functional Definition 5. Genocide in the Americas: Landmarks from "Latin" America Since 1492 6. The Earth Is Our Mother: Struggles for American Indian Land and Liberation in the Contemporary United States 7. Like Sand in the Wind: The Making of an American Indian Diaspora in the United States 8. The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement During the 1970s 9. White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of U.S. Higher Education 10. About That Bering Strait Land Bridge.... Let's Turn Those Footprints Around 11. On Gaining "Moral High Ground": An Ode to George Bush and the "New World Order" 12. False Promises: An Indigenist Examination of Marxist Theory and Practice 13. Between a Rock and a Hard Pace: Left-Wing Revolution, Right-Wing Reaction and the Destruction of Indigenous Peoples 14. On Support of the Indian Resistance in Nicaragua: A Statement of Position and Principle 15. The Meaning of Chiapas: A North American Indigenist View 16. Generations of Resistance: American Indian Poetry and the Ghost Dance Spirit 17. From a Woman Warrior: Wendy Rose's What Happened When the Hopi Hit New York 18. Another Vision of America: Simon J. Ortiz's From Sand Creek Although the resources endowing American Indian treaty territories have always been sufficient to make native people by far the wealthiest sector of the North American population, they have instead existed for generations as the very poorest. According to the federal government's own statistics, Indians receive the lowest per capita income of any group on the continent. Their unemployment rate is far and away the highest, year in, year out. Correspondingly, they suffer-by significant margins-the highest rates of malnutrition, infant mortality, death by exposure, tuberculosis, plague disease, and teen suicide. The average life expectancy of a reservation-based American Indian man is present 44.6 years; a native woman may expect to live less than three years longer. "Labeled "controversial" by politicians and pundits alike, Ward Churchill's scholarship endures the test of time. Rational, angry, yet ultimately hopeful, his is a leading voice against the ongoing genocide perpetrated on Native American peoples. Intellectually cogent while remaining accessible to the general reader, the eighteen essays herein will challenge you to think, and then act, in the fight for justice waged since Columbus' arrival."--Publisher's website.