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"Fraud, graft, corruption, and murder are recurrent themes in this telling of the story of the American Indian's long and courageous struggle for freedom and equality in his native land. The Tortured Americans, written by an American Indian, describes the agonies and hardships endured by the first Americans today, and challenges the American conscience to action.

The author's confrontation with the varied ills besetting the Indian has taken many forms, including the tyrannical bungling of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; the so-called "termination policy" of 1953 which reneged on the government's obligation to render services provided for by treaties and which further bankrupt some tribes; a conniving group of calloused persons - some Indians among them - who have exploited the disadvantaged Indian's plight to their own financial advantage.

Authentic, revealing, thought-provoking, and bound to cause controversy, Robert Burnette's book is a searchingly impassioned call for decency; it must not go unheeded."--Book jacket.