THE RIGHT TO THEIR OWN LANDS

As these once-free people are restricted, either to reservations on the poorest lands in regions rich in resources or to areas continually shrinking as roads are built and rivers channeled and forests destroyed, they still find it difficult to believe that the white man wants to own the land. It is a concept that remains alien to the native peoples, while the colonizers cannot seem to understand whatever else one would do but seek to own it. Nor can the natives stomach the condescension of the white man, with his certainty that he knows what is best for the native. "They can keep their knowledge. We just want to be left alone." (28 minutes)