The New Trail of Tears, Naomi Schaefer Riley
The New Trail of Tears, Naomi Schaefer Riley
List: $16.99 | Sale: $11.89
Club: $8.49

The New Trail of Tears
How Washington Is Destroying American Indians

Author: Naomi Schaefer Riley

Narrator: Christa Lewis

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/28/2017


Synopsis

If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the second 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.

About Naomi Schaefer Riley

Naomi Schaefer Riley is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute focusing on issues regarding child welfare; a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum; and a writer who examines parenting, higher education, religion, philanthropy, and culture.

She is a former columnist for the New York Post and has worked as a Wall Street Journal editor and writer. She is also the author of six books, including, Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat.

Her book, Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America, 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 Fox News, Fox Business, and CNBC. 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

The New Trail of Tears attempts to offer an explanation for the startling statistics that plague Native American communities. Naomi Schaefer Riley successfully moves the conversation beyond the romanticization of First Nations in the pre-contact years but arrives at another extreme. Undoubtedly self......more

Goodreads review by Emily

Late to reviewing this, but not because I didn’t have much to say about this book. Things I learned while reading: Essentially, members of the tribe living on the reservation cannot easily own property. After all, they’re living on federal land, or rather, lands held in trust by the federal governme......more