A Long and Terrible Shadow: White Values, Native Rights in the Americas Since 1492

by Thomas R. Berger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295978074
• ISBN13: 9780295978079
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"