A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas Since 1492
Thomas R. Berger(Author)
University of Washington Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-295-97807-9 (ISBN)
Description
When Christopher Columbus first encountered the original inhabitants of the New World, he remarked they were "So tractable, so peaceable . . . that I swear . . . there is not in the world a better nation." Yet wave after wave of European arrivals sought to wipe those nations from the earth.
By what right did one race seize the land belonging to another and subjugate its people? Distinguished jurist and Native rights advocate Thomas Berger surveys the history of the Americas since their "discovery" by Europeans and examines how the colonizing powers wrestled with the moral issues. Accounts of the slaughter and disenfranchisement of indigenous peoples throughout North, Central, and South America reveal a searing pattern of almost unimaginable duplicity and inhumanity. Five centuries later, Native Americans still embrace ancient values and cultural ways. Berger recounts this tenacious struggle to defy the odds and re-emerge as distinct cultures.
By what right did one race seize the land belonging to another and subjugate its people? Distinguished jurist and Native rights advocate Thomas Berger surveys the history of the Americas since their "discovery" by Europeans and examines how the colonizing powers wrestled with the moral issues. Accounts of the slaughter and disenfranchisement of indigenous peoples throughout North, Central, and South America reveal a searing pattern of almost unimaginable duplicity and inhumanity. Five centuries later, Native Americans still embrace ancient values and cultural ways. Berger recounts this tenacious struggle to defy the odds and re-emerge as distinct cultures.
Reviews / Votes
"A profound and intense appeal for the self-determination of peoples and for human rights."(Western Legal History)
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Series
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-97807-9 (9780295978079)
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Thomas R. Berger is a lawyer practicing in Vancouver, British Columbia.