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    A long and terrible shadow : white values, Native rights in the Americas, 1492-1992 / Thomas R. Berger.

    • Title:A long and terrible shadow : white values, Native rights in the Americas, 1492-1992 / Thomas R. Berger.
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    • Author/Creator:Berger, Thomas R.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
    • Published/Created:Vancouver, B.C. : Douglas & McIntyre, ©1991
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Indigenous peoples--North America
    • Description:xiv, 183 pages ; 24 cm.
    • Summary:"By what right did one race seize the land belonging to another race and subjugate its people? Distinguished jurist and Native rights advocate Thomas Berger surveys the history of the Americas since their "discovery" by Europeans and examines how the colonizing powers wrestled with the moral issues involved in the conquest." - inside front jacket.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:088894747X
    • Contents:1. Las casas and the rights of the Indians
      2. The debate at Valladolid
      3. Disease and death
      4. Indian slavery : Brazil and the Carolinas
      5. Indians as allies : the Iroquois
      6. John Marshall and the Indians
      7. Wars against the Indians : the United States and Argentina
      8. Reserves, reservations and reducciones
      9. Guatemala : rebirth of the black legend
      10. The last redoubt : the survival of subsistence
      11. Native claims and the rule of law
      Epilogue.
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