illuminating look into life in a still-occupied land

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	• Life in Occupied America Ward Churchill AK Press, 2003 - 1 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Despite the controversy, Ward is still a scholar

As a Native American, I've always loved Ward's writings. It does not matter to me whether he is an Indian or not. What he writes is scholarly, well-researched, and true of indigenous lives today.

Don't jump on the controversy band wagon. Read and decide for yourself.

illuminating look into life in a still-occupied land

From the beginning, Leonard Peltier as a symbol of Indigenous resistance, to the European Terrorism against Indigenous peoples in the form of biological warfare, Ward Churchill lets the reader-listener understand why this land is an occupied land, never disconnected from the disastrous colonoliasm which has killed off our people, languages and has bombarded our past and future. Genocide is applied as being a reality (and continuing)in this occupied land. This is a must to understand the effects of colonialism and terrorism on Indigenous peoples of this hemisphere. Tlazocamati.

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Why, despite still "owning" some of the most valuable land in North America (including most of the uranium reserves, 20% of the oil and natural gas, etc.), do the remaining 2 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? The systematic elimination of the American Indians didn't end with Columbus, or smallpox-laden blankets, or the scalp bounty. Here, the pre-eminent Native activist/scholar Ward Churchill passionately unveils the 500-year conquest and demonstrates its continuation -today.

Ward Churchill teaches at the University of Colorado/Boulder and is the author of numerous books and spoken-word CDs.

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