Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on Dec 4, 2009
When Native Americans shared a harvest feast with English colonists in 1621, the event was known as the first Thanksgiving. But to some, the U.S. holiday marks the day when Native Americans began to have their lands - and ways of life - stripped from them.
Over the next 200 years, as the United States expanded its borders, many Native American tribes were left with little or no land at all as a result of warfare and countless broken treaties. The Native Americans have since lived in government-created reservations ridden with poverty and disease.
The consequences of dispossession can be seen elsewhere in todays world, from the Palestinians to the Australian aborigines and First Nations people of Canada.
So what can be done to protect the rights of dispossessed peoples? In this episode, Riz speaks to Native American actor and activist Russell Means about American Indian rights and his quest for a new homeland.
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