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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Donald L. Fixico. The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources. Niwot: University Press of Colorado. 1998. Pp. xix, 258. Cloth $39.95, paper $22.50.

Donald L. Fixico's examination of the influence of modern capitalism on American Indian reservations is an unabashed and unapologetic story about the exploitation of Native people and their land. The author tells with passion "how my ancestors and other Indian people have suffered at the hands of American capitalists in this age of greed, the twentieth century" (p. ix). But the consistently argued thesis in this book addresses even larger issues. Fixico contends that the acquisitive instincts of the American people, the all-consuming pursuit of wealth, and the accumulation of goods are contributing to a global environmental crisis. 1

The book is organized into two parts. The first section includes six case studies of disparate Indian societies and the manner in which federal policies have undermined tribal life. Individual chapters address the non-Indian quest for allotted land and oil and mineral leases, access to water and timber, the denial of Indian fishing rights, and the struggle over native cultural rights to the Black Hills. The second section is divided into five chapters that discuss the wide-ranging corporate assault on tribal land, mineral, and water rights and the various strategies that tribal governments are using to defend those resources. . . .

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