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This 5 page paper examines the thesis of Thomas Berger in his book The Long Shadow. The thesis is that indigenous people (i.e., natives) in the Americans are being as shabbily treated today by corporations and private concerns as they were hundreds of years ago as settlers began to infiltrate their lands. The paper names current examples of why Berger's thesis is correct. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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were already on the land when settlers came from Europe to explore the so-called "New World." Through a series of bloody battles and wars throughout the 18th and 19th centuries,
these natives were forced off lands they had roamed for centuries and placed into smaller parcels of land known as reservations. Their people were killed and their culture stripped from
them. According to Thomas R. Berger, a former Supreme Court Judge in British Columbia, Canada, and an attorney, this exploitation of natives
throughout the Americas continues today. He outlines this theory, along with evidence, in his 1992 book, A Long and Terrible Shadow, which describes the history and disenfranchisement of indigenous people
throughout North, Central and South America. But Berger doesnt place blame for this disenfranchisement in the past; he also notes that the exploitation still continues. The premise of Bergers book
is that the actions of todays governmental leaders in terms of indigenous or "native" people of the Americas - the natives arent treated much differently than they were 500 years
ago by people in power, both in business and government. One example that Berger uses to support his point is that of people in the environmental movement who have used
native people for their own agendas toward cleaning up the earth. Those in the environmental movement dont seem to care about the indigenous natives or their need for pristine lands
on which to hunt and perform religious rites; instead, "the natives" are trotted out as a "visual aid" so environmental groups can get their point across that corporations and governments
are raping the environment. Once the environmentalists are through, they pretty much leave the indigenous people in the same predicament in which they were found.
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