Publisher's Synopsis
This text follows the history of the conquest of the Americas, illustrating the Indian revival in North and South America since the 1970s. From opposition to dam-building programmes on tribal lands in Canada to the Chiapas rebellion in Mexico and the fight against the multinational oil companies in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the new Indian movement is changing the face of politics across the Americas.;The introduction to the book has been written by Rigoberta Menchu, 1992 Nobel Prizewinner.
