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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 today—denying 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 citizens—that 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 immediately—not only because they make the lives of millions of American citizens harder and more dangerous—but 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 need—the 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.

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“The New Trail of Tears is a much-needed revelation of heart-breaking conditions on American Indian reservations—and of the attitudes, incentives, and politics that make the people living on those reservations even worse off than other low-income minorities, including American Indians living elsewhere in American society. The laws and policies behind these human tragedies have wider implications for welfare state assumptions and politically correct decisions, including the grossly misnamed ‘Indian Child Welfare Act.’ This book is an insightful and much-needed introduction to a subject that deserves much more public attention than it gets, both for its own sake and for what it reveals about the political and ideological climate of our time.”

—Thomas Sowell

“I've grubbed in the data regarding American Indian poverty for years, but none of my numbers will have the effect of Naomi Riley's investigation and prose. Through clear thinking and personal accounts, she articulates why this ignored minority remains in poverty and how they can escape it. The New Trail of Tears is a must read if you care about the plight of poor people, in general, and American Indians, in particular.”

—Terry L. Anderson, author of Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations and senior fellow of The Hoover Institution at Stanford University

“Clear evidence of the tragedy that results when individual property rights are equated with group rights.”

—Amity Shlaes, presidential scholar at the Kings College and author of Coolidge and The Forgotten Man

“The New Trail of Tears is a powerful antidote to the romantic nonsense about the history of American Indian groups that pervades our school curriculum today, and a stinging indictments of the paternalistic public policies that continue to keep most Indians mired in poverty even now. Written in lively and lucid prose, it is my candidate for the book-of-the-year on racial issues in the United States.”

—Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University

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Naomi Schaefer Riley is a weekly columnist for the New York Post and a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer whose work focuses on higher education, religion, philanthropy and culture. She is the author of several books on those topics. Her book, 'Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America (Oxford, 2013), was named an editor's pick by the New York Times Book Review. 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 FoxNews and FoxBusiness. She has also appeared on Q&A with Brian Lamb as well as the Today Show. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in English and Government. She lives in the suburbs of New York with her husband, Jason, and their three children.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books (July 26, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594038538
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594038532
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches

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Naomi Schaefer Riley is a weekly columnist for the New York Post and a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer whose work focuses on higher education, religion, philanthropy and culture. She is the author of “The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians" (Encounter, 2016).

Her book, "'Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America" (Oxford, 2013), was named an editor's pick by the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of "God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America" (St. Martin's, 2005) and "The Faculty Lounges ... And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For" (Ivan Dee, 2011).

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 FoxNews and FoxBusiness. She has also appeared on Q&A with Brian Lamb as well as the Today Show.

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Blaargh

An introduction to the problems of Native Americans

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2019

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This book reveals a lot about what's happening on reservations today. You'll learn about the adverse effects of the "trust" system, as well as the failure of "annuity" checks and about Native American alcohol and drug abuse, among other things. The thing that particularly shocked me was when the author talked about the charter school set up by Ben Chavis in Oakland, California that was ranked number one in the entire country by the Washington Post – despite around three quarters of the students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. I had read about schools that helped low-income kids succeed before, but Mr. Chavis's school (and the other schools that you'll read about if you research this subject, such as Marva Collins's school in Chicago, Dunbar High School, or the schools that the author's husband mentions in his book "Please Stop Helping Us") clearly demonstrate that poverty is no excuse for academic failure. I also appreciated the information about the supposed lack of private property among the tribes, and their alleged usage of "every part of the animal."

The book sometimes drags on quite a bit, and I wish that the author included other examples of government dependency to strengthen her argument (if she did, I definitely don't remember reading about them in this book). I was also disappointed to see little discussion of the Indian Health Service; after watching her YouTube video on the book ("American Indians Are Still Getting a Raw Deal"), I thought she was going to talk more about it, as well as its scandals.

Despite these disappointments, the book is overall pretty informative.

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R. Simpson

This book is a good critic of the current situation of American Indians

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 4, 2016

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This book is a good critic of the current situation of American Indians. We travel every year to New Mexico and have traveled quite a bit in AZ and UT and have seen the situation described in this book. The US government is stuck in the 19th century in the handling of the reservations and this book provides a lot of information related to that situation. The reservations are a reflection of the population off reservation, too. With this growing romance between state governments and gambling and their continuing romance with alcohol, how could they expect the American Indian population to do any better? The US government is slow to change anything and neither do tribal leaders want to change because there is money and jobs to be had by both. Education is only part of the answer. Sadly our country has lost its moral footing and doesn't even pretend to have any direction. It is mostly the destruction of the family unit in poorer American that is the problem. My great grand mother was a full bloodied Cherokee. She was raised on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina, but came off in her teens and married my great grandfather....a full blooded "hillbilly". Neither were educated at all past the first few years of elementary school. My children are college graduates, but also had a strong Christian upbringing with clear teaching of right and wrong and to "love your neighbor as yourself" AND to go to work!!!! No drinking and no smoking and no cursing........try to find that today!!!!

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Becky Glass, Idaho

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I really appreciated all the research the author provided in the book. She really made the case that American Indians are the real victims of American history. And the abuse continues in the form of our mismanaged bureaucracy. This book was an eye opener for me. A serious read but very educational. It is a subject that should interest more of us.

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A much-needed book, though incomplete

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2016

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It used to be that most people's knowledge of Indians consisted of the Little Big Horn and nothing since; nowadays it consists of the Little Big Horn, the Trail of Tears, and nothing since. People really ought to read this book.

I have lived most of my life near several Indian reservations and have worked as a lawyer in Indian courts. This book's description of reservations and reservation life is accurate. (In fact, it seems to understate or skirt certain issues, perhaps because they might be seen as criticisms of Indians themselves.)

I wish, though, that Riley had given more attention to the problems of Indian courts. The principal barriers to Indian economic development include not only the regulatory policies she analyzes but also the fact that on many reservations non-Indians cannot expect impartial resolution of legal disputes. (One Indian judge I encountered was a very old lady, appointed judge because she was related to the winners of the most recent tribal election, who had no training in law or in anything else and who could barely speak Enlgish. The tribe saw nothing wrong with this, though it did try to keep secret the fact that she could not read.)

Typical of books by journalists, stylistically the book is more like an extended newspaper or magazine article. But it is a nicely-written article.

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JOIN THE CONVERSATION NO ONE ELSE IS HAVING

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 7, 2016

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"They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time." - Sitting Bull

I caught a great interview with the author on the Dennis Prager show and couldn't agree with her more. Frequently, throughout the past several years, I have watched and listened to endless media and talking heads focus on racial tensions with police and African-Americans. To my consternation, I have asked myself and of others, why aren't we discussing the Indians and there miserable lot in life, and no one seems to care. Author Naomi Schaefer Riley had the honest investigative journalism to answer my burning questions and tackle a tough and unpopular subject.

Look at our violent and selfish history ranging from the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Trial of Tears, to the Long Walk to Sitting Bull.

If you were a fan of the Ken Burns documentary on The West, you already know and have a deeper understanding that the American Indians were relegated to reservations and have become a minor footnote in our American history. The abuse continues today, but no one is talking about it.

Speak up and join the conversation that no one else is having. Especially Washington.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 10, 2018

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Just started reading this and already I am hooked.
Honest and hard hitting. Pulls no punches about the way Indigenous Peoples are treated within their own lands and why they need to be given the same rights afforded to the rest of USA.
If you are interested in the Native Peoples of America get this book.

john cox

... of where Native Americans are at which is not good with some interesting thoughts on what might be done

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 8, 2016

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Very interesting introduction to the question of where Native Americans are at which is not good with some interesting thoughts on what might be done. Very well written a pleasure to read.

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