The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians

by Naomi Schaefer Riley

Book Overview

If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and why gang violence affects American Indian youth more than any other group, do not look to history. There is no doubt that white settlers devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th centuries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594038538
• ISBN13: 9781594038532
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"