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A 6 page paper which explains and analyzes Ward Churchill's "Perversions of Justice." Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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into the domain of one native people or another and completely dominated them, taking everything they possessed away from them and leaving many of them with no culture. Through religion
and through political control, the "civilized" man has taken, destroyed, and possessed everything that once belonged to other people. While many people just argue it was a thing of the
past and is no longer important today, the truth is far from that as many native peoples struggle to regain something of their identity in a white mans world. In
his essay "Perversions of Justice" Ward Churchill provides the reader with some of the history of the controlling and dominating nature of the white man and how it has controlled
native people, and still does today. The following paper examines his essay and looks to see what may have been done in the past to have avoided the devastating realities
that occurred and which still exist, however subtle. Perversions of Justice Churchill begins by illustrating how the imperial rulers, those in position when Columbus and other discovered new
lands, needed a way in which to own some of the lands they encountered. They were not content to discover but wanted to dominate and own these new lands. They
devised many different "legal" ways in which land could ultimately be taken away from natives. They had certain rules that appeared to be open and honest, claiming the land belonged
to the natives, but there were so many loopholes through which the "civilized" people could move that the natives ultimately never had a chance of keeping the land they possessed
or lived on. And, in all honesty, it has been shown over and over that native peoples do not generally consider the land something someone can own. That idea is
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