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Just published by Midsummer Books: "America’s Existential Crisis: Our Inherited Obligation to Native Nations"
From the book: “The entire USA has and continues to benefit from the illegal and inhumane treatment of the people of the Native Nations. If America is going to continue to claim it is a moral leader, the “city on a hill” and beacon to the rest of the world, we have to finally and fully face up to our genocidal history by paying off the debt and cleansing that historical sin.”
This book makes the case that all non-Native Americans and the US government have inherited an obligation to our fellow Americans, whose ancestors were forced off their traditional lands onto reservations. The population of North American indigenous people was decimated by a 90 percent reduction and the land they controlled was reduced from 100 percent to 2 percent, as a result of the Anglo-European invasion and US conquest. All non-Native Americans are the beneficiaries of this genocidal subjugation of Native tribes, because the USA would not be what it is today, and non-Native citizens would not have what they have, were it not for the decimation of the Native population and land theft by our national ancestors.
The book relates the brutal history of enforcement of the 1830 Indian Removal Act and transitions into an argument for culturally sensitive development of Native communities. The American Rescue Act for Native Tribes is a start, but it does not go far enough in promoting sustainable and thriving economies within Native communities.
The book is available at
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...
Promo video of the book on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/embed/K3gZf1X...
This book makes the case that all non-Native Americans and the US government have inherited an obligation to our fellow Americans, whose ancestors were forced off their traditional lands onto reservations. The population of North American indigenous people was decimated by a 90 percent reduction and the land they controlled was reduced from 100 percent to 2 percent, as a result of the Anglo-European invasion and US conquest. All non-Native Americans are the beneficiaries of this genocidal subjugation of Native tribes, because the USA would not be what it is today, and non-Native citizens would not have what they have, were it not for the decimation of the Native population and land theft by our national ancestors.
The book relates the brutal history of enforcement of the 1830 Indian Removal Act and transitions into an argument for culturally sensitive development of Native communities. The American Rescue Act for Native Tribes is a start, but it does not go far enough in promoting sustainable and thriving economies within Native communities.
The book is available at
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...
Promo video of the book on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/embed/K3gZf1X...
