Savage Anxieties

This review of Western history’s disdain for “savage” tribes across three millennia is “a provocative contribution to multicultural studies” ( Publishers Weekly ). From one of the world’s leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples’ human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of