Table of Contents
- 1 What is indigenous socialism?
- 2 How did capitalism affect Native Americans?
- 3 Who are the world’s indigenous peoples and why are these groups especially vulnerable to destruction as a result of the expansion of capitalism?
- 4 What is the poverty level on Indian reservations?
- 5 Is the Mises Institute’s “Native American reservations” propaganda?
Socialism is the process of being able to live as Indigenous again in full collective determination of our present and future. Communism fulfills all that begets life on. Mother Earth through the overturning of all forms of private property.
How are Native American reservations governed?
As U.S. citizens, American Indians and Alaska Natives are generally subject to federal, state, and local laws. On federal Indian reservations, however, only federal and tribal laws apply to members of the tribe, unless Congress provides otherwise.
How did capitalism affect Native Americans?
The spread of capitalism has proved to be devastating for Indigenous people, as their culture and social-ecological systems are innately incompatible with those of capitalism. The inability for the two to co-exist leaves Native Americans and other indigenous groups more susceptible to the effects of capitalism.
What did Howard Adams do?
Born into poverty, Howard Adams became one of the most highly educated, outspoken, and controversial Indigenous leaders of his time. As an educator, political leader, and writer he raised the political consciousness of Indigenous people concerning their position in capitalist society.
Who are the world’s indigenous peoples and why are these groups especially vulnerable to destruction as a result of the expansion of capitalism?
They are also called the first peoples and sometimes referred to as the Fourth World. These groups are especially vulnerable to destruction as a result of the expansion of capitalism because they are denied their right to control their own development based on their own values, needs and priorities.
Why is Howard Adams important?
Adams became the first Métis in Canada to gain his PhD after studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. He returned to Canada and became a prominent Métis activist, contributing regularly to newspapers and magazines and appearing on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio shows.
What is the poverty level on Indian reservations?
The poverty level on many reservations ranges between 38 and 63 percent (up to 82 percent on some reservations), 4 and half of all the jobs are usually in the public sector. 5 This is before the crisis of 2008!
Are Native Americans the only libertarians in history?
In the passage, Zinn explains how Native Americans are some of the only real libertarians in history—that is to say libertarians in the original sense of the term, libertarian socialists. As I have written elsewhere,
Is the Mises Institute’s “Native American reservations” propaganda?
In lieu of addressing the Mises Institute’s right-wing propaganda in “Native American Reservations: ‘Socialist Archipelago,’” therefore, let us instead turn to a passage from the opening chapter, “ Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress ,” of American historian Howard Zinn’s magnum opus A People’s History of the United States.
Can a tribal government own a restaurant?
For example, in the rest of the United States, municipalities and counties do not own restaurants, resorts, motels, casinos, and factories. In Indian Country, by contrast, it became standard practice since the New Deal. By their status, these tribal governments are more interested in distributing jobs and funds than in making a profit.
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