"Savage Anxieties" and the History of Dispossession

Posted By Toyacoyah Brown January 11th, 2015 Last Updated on: January 11th, 2015

I love when my friends send me links to stories such as this one. It gives me hope that people are listening to our voices out there and we have some allies in the fight!

Recently veteran journalist Bill Moyers had Robert A. Williams, Jr. on his show, discussing the recent defense bill that passed, giving sacred lands to foreign mining company Rio Tinto. During their discussion they touched on the Native American's long painful history of dispossession.

“Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it’s labor or whether it’s land from one racial group to give them to the dominate racial group,”