The New Trail of Tears

How Washington Is Destroying American Indians

Naomi Schaefer Riley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2022
Encounter Books,USA (Verlag)
978-1-64177-226-6 (ISBN)

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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. But it is our policies todaydenying Indians ownership of their land, refusing them access to the free market and failing to provide the police and legal protections due to them as American citizensthat have turned reservations into small third-world countries in the middle of the richest and freest nation on earth.

The tragedy of our Indian policies demands reexamination immediatelynot only because they make the lives of millions of American citizens harder and more dangerousbut also because they represent a microcosm of everything that has gone wrong with modern liberalism. They are the result of decades of politicians and bureaucrats showering a victimized people with money and cultural sensitivity instead of what they truly needthe education, the legal protections and the autonomy to improve their own situation.

If we are really ready to have a conversation about American Indians, it is time to stop bickering about the names of football teams and institute real reforms that will bring to an end this ongoing national shame.

Naomi Schaefer Riley is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on issues of child welfare, as well as a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. A former New York Post columnist and a former Wall Street Journaleditor and writer, she is the author of several books on education, religion and family. Ms. Riley’s writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the LA Times, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She appears regularly on Fox News and Fox Business and CNBC. She has also appeared on Q&A with Brian Lamb as well as the Today Show. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with degrees in English and Government. She lives in the suburbs of New York City with her husband, Jason, and their three children.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-64177-226-3 / 1641772263
ISBN-13	978-1-64177-226-6 / 9781641772266
Zustand	Neuware