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Life in Occupied America

Life in Occupied America

Why, despite still "owning" some of the most valuable land in North America (including most of the uranium reserves, 20% of the oil and natural gas, etc.), do the remaining 2 million Native inhabitants live in conditions of Third World poverty-a life expectancy averaging under 50; 60% unemployment; a per capita income on the Pine Ridge Reservation of $2000 a year? The systematic elimination of the American Indians didn't end with Columbus, or smallpox-laden blankets, or the scalp bounty. Here, the pre-eminent Native activist/scholar Ward Churchill passionately unveils the 500-year conquest and demonstrates its continuation -today.

Ward Churchill teaches at the University of Colorado/Boulder and is the author of numerous books and spoken-word CDs.

Manufacturer: AK Press

Price: $8.40

Life in Occupied America

User Reviews

A receptacle for your pain
rating: 1

This is just perfect. The only thing that would improve this bitter irony is a big weeping picture of the Italian actor that played the eco-friendly Indian in the litter commercials on the cover. Ward Churchill is the quintessential academic who has never really thought a thought through for himself. He is neither Indian nor scholar and he knows very little about history. If you agree you know this already and if you disagree you hate me and don't need to read his book. He spouts Pseudo-Sartre [someone said Chomsky] and the self-hate and fear just oozes. It is painful but almost entertaining to read a page or two. More just tires, and profits no one but him.

Despite the controversy, Ward is still a scholar
rating: 4

As a Native American, I've always loved Ward's writings. It does not matter to me whether he is an Indian or not. What he writes is scholarly, well-researched, and true of indigenous lives today.

Don't jump on the controversy band wagon. Read and decide for yourself.

Self-righteous and racist
rating: 1

Churchill's main thesis is that non-Indian Amerians, excluding "some" Latinos, namely those of mestizo (mixed European/Indigenous) descent and African-Americans (since they were brought here by force) are colonial settlers on this continent and should be expelled. Churchill writes in lengthy Chomsky-style paragraphs that fail to actually measure up to Chomsky and come as pointless.

Churchill is an interesting character. Regardless of whether he is actually Indian or not, he is undeniably majority white, so his rants come as self-hating diatribes being shouted into a mirror. Some of what he writes can be verified and is useful to know, though that is mainly constricted to life in Indian Reservations in contemporary times or in the 60, 70 or 80's.

illuminating look into life in a still-occupied land
rating: 5

From the beginning, Leonard Peltier as a symbol of Indigenous resistance, to the European Terrorism against Indigenous peoples in the form of biological warfare, Ward Churchill lets the reader-listener understand why this land is an occupied land, never disconnected from the disastrous colonoliasm which has killed off our people, languages and has bombarded our past and future. Genocide is applied as being a reality (and continuing)in this occupied land. This is a must to understand the effects of colonialism and terrorism on Indigenous peoples of this hemisphere. Tlazocamati.

Life in Occupied America