Notes, index, index of Indian nations. Contributors include Vine Deloria, Jr., Ward Churchill, Glenn T. Morris, M. Annette Jaimes, Jim Vander Wall, and Winona LaDuke. The publication of this book is appropriate for the 500th anniversary of Columbus' navigational error that brought him to the shores of North America, as it details Native American challenges to the reasons for celebrating the event. While this goes on, most Americans remain oblivious or believe that it is the tribes' fault for refusing to assimilate. The book opens with an event that shows our need to understand Native American's view of history.
Whites show a lack of compas- sion when they commemorate events that are tragedies to Indian tribes.
It is also one of the most scholarly and coherent statements yet to be produced on the injustices that we are perpetuating. Many professors of classes on Native Americans will have a hard decision whether to include this book as a text. The wise ones will do so. And the bottom line is always respect. It is what causes you to think about not hurting or bringing about suffering to any living thing.