The Second Long Walk: The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

Kammer, Jerry

History

Univ Of Nm Press

''THE SECOND LONG WALK'' covers the tragic conflict between two tribes of American Indians who inhabit the northeast quarter of Arizona. Some 8,000 Hopis live on a small reservation surrounded by the much larger reservation of an estimated 150,000 Navajos. The Hopis are farmers by tradition and, until recently, lived in medieval-looking stone villages built, for reasons of defense, on the tops of cliff-rimmed mesas. According to their own mythology, the Hopis have been here forever; according to anthropological research, they have lived here for at least 700 years. The Navajos, according to anthropological lore, are relatively recent arrivals on the North American continent (like the rest of us). They came roving down from the north in small, nomadic bands, a hunting, gathering and raiding society, and arrived in what is now Arizona about 500 years ago, not long before the Spanish. Adaptable and relentlessly expansionistic, they acquired horses, sheep, goats and the arts of silversmith

The Second Long Walk

Business & Money

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Losing Control: How a Left-Right Coalition Blocked Immigration Reform and Provoked the Backlash That Elected Trump

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Center for Immigration Studies

Follow Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jerry Kammer as he tells the story of the federal government's failure to control illegal immigration as Congress promised in 1986, when it enacted an historic compromise reform that also provided amnesty to nearly three million unauthorized immigrants. Kammer argues that this was one of the most consequential failures in American history because it led to the proliferation of illegal immigration, which produced a backlash that eventually led to the election of Donald Trump. Losing Control is a vivid history of the past half century of immigration politics and policy. It is also a dramatic ground-level account of how the story took shape. Kammer describes the economic and cultural forces that both pushed millions of migrants from home communities in Latin America and pulled them northward to the US. He shows how the backlash gradually emerged from the frustrations of American workers and communities who felt overwhelmed by the influx and betrayed by their government. Kammer also explains the Democrats abandonment of their historic commitment to control illegal immigration. And he details how Republicans placated corporate interests by allowing workplace controls to fail. Meanwhile, both parties sought to appease the public by spending billions on border security. Finally, he suggests new reforms that would honor our dual legacy as a country of immigrants and a country of laws.

The Center for Immigration Studies

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