The American Indian
R. J. Rushdoony
Long before state health care or food stamps, before the creation of welfare ghettoes in our major cities, America’s first experiment with socialism and government dependency practically destroyed the American Indian.
Government experts created the Indian reservations. America’s churches whole-heartedly supported it, convinced the reservation would be the key to winning souls for Christianity.
In 1944 young R. J. Rushdoony arrived at the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada as a missionary to the Shoshone and the Paiute Indians. For eight years he lived with them, worked with them, ministered to them and listened to their stories. He came to know them intimately, both as individuals and as a people. This is his story, and theirs.
It is also the story of an experiment that failed, disastrously—and exercise in statist paternalism and ineffective Christian meddling whose effects ravage the Indians to this day. The reservation system debased the people it was meant to serve, and the churches failed in their mission; until, in the end, the proud and resourceful Indian was transformed into “a defeated man, lacking in character.” This is Rushdoony’s eyewitness testimony to that failure.
Today, as America’s leaders expand the welfare state and radically transform the entire nation, we’d do well to reconsider this first experiment in government dependency and a Christianity stripped of God’s law—before all of the United States is transformed into a massive reservation on a continental scale. Rushdoony’s description of our past is also an indictment of our statist future.
Duration - 2h 21m.
Author - R. J. Rushdoony.
Narrator - Nathan Conkey.
Published Date - Wednesday, 11 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2021 Chalcedon Inc ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Long before state health care or food stamps, before the creation of welfare ghettoes in our major cities, America’s first experiment with socialism and government dependency practically destroyed the American Indian. Government experts created the Indian reservations. America’s churches whole-heartedly supported it, convinced the reservation would be the key to winning souls for Christianity. In 1944 young R. J. Rushdoony arrived at the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada as a missionary to the Shoshone and the Paiute Indians. For eight years he lived with them, worked with them, ministered to them and listened to their stories. He came to know them intimately, both as individuals and as a people. This is his story, and theirs. It is also the story of an experiment that failed, disastrously—and exercise in statist paternalism and ineffective Christian meddling whose effects ravage the Indians to this day. The reservation system debased the people it was meant to serve, and the churches failed in their mission; until, in the end, the proud and resourceful Indian was transformed into “a defeated man, lacking in character.” This is Rushdoony’s eyewitness testimony to that failure. Today, as America’s leaders expand the welfare state and radically transform the entire nation, we’d do well to reconsider this first experiment in government dependency and a Christianity stripped of God’s law—before all of the United States is transformed into a massive reservation on a continental scale. Rushdoony’s description of our past is also an indictment of our statist future. Duration - 2h 21m. Author - R. J. Rushdoony. Narrator - Nathan Conkey. Published Date - Wednesday, 11 January 2023. Copyright - © 2021 Chalcedon Inc ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:20:41
Foreword
Duration:09:35:25
Introduction
Duration:38:35:53
Chapter 1: Education
Duration:16:58:15
Chapter 2: Medicine Men
Duration:08:19:54
Chapter 3: Funerals
Duration:10:26:22
Chapter 4: Power
Duration:07:13:06
Chapter 5: Realism
Duration:08:44:39
Chapter 6: Work
Duration:10:47:27
Chapter 7: The Renegade
Duration:07:14:17
Chapter 8: Alcoholism and Permissiveness
Duration:08:45:06
Chapter 9: The Mythical Indian
Duration:08:43:42
Chapter 10: The American Indian
Duration:08:08:40
Chapter 11: Self Image
Duration:08:25:19
Chapter 12: The Old Indian Life
Duration:08:36:41
Chapter 13: Envy
Duration:08:42:03
Chapter 14: The Mistreatment of Indians
Duration:08:35:17
Chapter 15: The Invented Indian
Duration:06:41:54
Chapter 16: Indians and Anthropologists
Duration:11:02:40
Chapter 17: The Fallacy of Primitivsm
Duration:06:57:51
Chapter 18: The Coyote
Duration:06:46:16
Chapter 19: Loved in Absentia
Duration:08:29:24
Chapter 20: Improving the Morals of the Past
Duration:07:00:49
Appendix: The Welfare Stateon the Reservation
Duration:40:41:31
Ending Credits
Duration:00:28:16