Cultural Writing. In this trenchant, and often bitingly acerbic lecture, coupled with a fiery question and answer session, Native activist-scholar Ward Churchill lays out the current state of Native America. From the first recorded instance of biological warfare to a Native population today living in conditions of Third World Poverty (a life expectancy on the Reservations for a man of less than 50 years, 60% unemployment, and outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague, for example), Churchill tracks the effects, causes and consequences of 500 years of wars, broken treaties, duplicity, exploitation, environmental degradation, genocide and colonization - life in occupied America since predator came.

Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Cherokee) is professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder. A member of the leadership council of Colorado AIM (American Indian Movement), he is a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. A prolific writer and lecturer, he has authored, co-authored or edited more than twenty books.