Wasi'chu: The Continuing Indian Wars

268 pp. "Within the modern American Indian movement Wasi'chu (literally, "greedy one") has come to stand for those corporations and individuals who continue to ravage and steal Indian land and resources for their private profit. This book is about resistance to the Wasi'chu and to the economic system that nourishes and rewards them. It is also about the consequences of that resistance, the repression and violence unleashed upon the Indians as the battle to stop the march of the Wasi'chu gains strength. ...document in eloquent detail the means by which the Indians have been subjugated, both as individuals and as a people; they discuss the underlying reasons for this subjugation, reasons found in the rich booty still held by the Indian nations and coveted by U.S. corporations, often supported by the U.S. government. Separate chapters deal with the struggle over stripmining in Montana, and over fishery rights in the state of Washington. Other chapters describe the rise of political consciousness among the Indians and the development of their resistance movement, first on the local level and then nationwide. Finally, the authors discuss the wider political implications of this movement, linking the Indian struggle with that of colonized people the world over."