Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 910

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Author: Stewart Wakeling
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Category : Indian reservation police
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs
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Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101663170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1774

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An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise On a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native Americans near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, left an Indian and two federal agents dead. Four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges, and one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted and is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary. Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance, brilliantly explicated by Peter Matthiessen in this controversial book. Kept off the shelves for eight years because of one of the most protracted and bitterly fought legal cases in publishing history, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse reveals the Lakota tribe’s long struggle with the U.S. government, and makes clear why the traditional Indian concept of the earth is so important at a time when increasing populations are destroying the precious resources of our world.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Felix S. Cohen
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Patrick A. Reebel
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: United States. Department of Justice
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Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1252

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Author: Naomi Schaefer Riley
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641772271
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and why gang violence affects American Indian youth more than any other group, do not look to history. There is no doubt that white settlers devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th centuries. But it is our policies today—denying Indians ownership of their land, refusing them access to the free market and failing to provide the police and legal protections due to them as American citizens—that have turned reservations into small third-world countries in the middle of the richest and freest nation on earth. The tragedy of our Indian policies demands reexamination immediately—not only because they make the lives of millions of American citizens harder and more dangerous—but also because they represent a microcosm of everything that has gone wrong with modern liberalism. They are the result of decades of politicians and bureaucrats showering a victimized people with money and cultural sensitivity instead of what they truly need—the education, the legal protections and the autonomy to improve their own situation. If we are really ready to have a conversation about American Indians, it is time to stop bickering about the names of football teams and institute real reforms that will bring to an end this ongoing national shame.