Genocide of indigenous peoples
By: Samuel Totten and Robert K. Hitchcock, editors
Series: Genocide : a critical bibliographic review -- v. 8
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781412814959
Subjects: Crimes against humanity; Genocide; Violence against; Crimes against; Indigenous peoples
Description: "An estimated 350 to 600 million indigenous people reside across the globe. Numerous governments fail to recognize its indigenous peoples living within their borders. It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that the genocide of indigenous peoples became a major focus of human rights activists, non-governmental organizations, international development and finance institutions such as the United Nations and the World Bank, and indigenous and other community-based organizations.

Scholars and activists began paying greater attention to the struggles between Fourth World peoples and First, Second, and Third World states because of illegal actions of nation-states against indigenous peoples, indigenous groups" passive and active resistance to top-down development, and concerns about the impacts of transnational forces including what is now known as globalization.

This volume offers a clear message for genocide scholars and others concerned with crimes against humanity and genocide: much greater attention must be paid to the plight of all peoples, indigenous and otherwise, no matter how small in scale, how little-known, how "invisible" or hidden from view."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.