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whites. Lizot proposes that integrationof the Yanomamiinto the national life is possible if the richness of theirtraditions is respected and included under the ambit ofcultural pluralism.~ 1. 42 ~Markus, Andrew. Governing Savages. Sydney, Wellington,London, and Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1990.Governing Savages is a highly readable accountof official policies towards Australian Aborigines inthe Northern Territory in the first half of this century.Three chapters introduce the main perspectives withwhich white settlers viewed Aborigines, while Chapters4-11 each concentrate on a wide range of differentinstitutions. Perhaps the most illuminating aspect ofthe book is the complexity of attitudes held by bothindividuals and institutions towards Aborigines, echoedin respective policies aimed at "solving" "the problems"that Aborigines represented to white invaders. Of theseproblems, the question of where people of mixed racewere to fit into society was the most vexed. Ethnocidalpolicies were here resolutely pursued by a number ofmissionaries, more tentatively by various governmentrepresentatives.~ 1. 43 «Mattingley, Christobel, ed. Survival in Our Own Land.Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1988. ISBN 0-85904-048-8.Aborigines from the Nunga, Pitjantjatjara, andArynyamathanha communities speak of their historyand experiences under white rule from 1836. Much ofthe volume is given to the question of cultural identity,as traditional customs were prohibited through Europeanreligious and educational institutions, and laborexploitation. The ways in which different peopleresisted and successfully reasserted their own identityare celebrated. This is an unusual and interesting bookwhich tells Australian history from the perspective ofsome of its original inhabitants.~ 1. 44 ~McLoughlin, William G. Cherokees and Missionaries,1789-1839. New Haven, and London: Yale UniversityPress, 1984. LC 83-11759. ISBN 0-300-03075-4.McLoughlin examines the complexity of relationsbetween the Cherokee nation, missionaries, and theUnited States state and federal governments during theperiod of the first United States Indian policy. Thepolicy intended to acculturate all 125, 000 Indians eastof the Mississippi within fifty years with the aim oftheir becoming "full and equal citizens" of America.Missionaries were integral to this policy, yet theybecame increasingly estranged from support for statepolicies over the issue of forced removals. From 1828they developed gradual respect for Cherokee qualities.McLoughlin takes issue with previous attempts toexplain Native American cultural destruction byrecourse to a single economic cause; he also arguesthat, despite attempts, the Cherokee culture was notdestroyed but transformed.~ 1. 45*McNeely, Jeffrey A. , and David Pitt, eds. Culture andConservation. London, Sydney, and Dover: CroomHelm, 1985. ISBN 0-7099-1321-4.The editors have assembled a collection of paperson a topic often overlooked in development projects.Their book covers a diversityof projects situatedthroughout the world and deals with questions of vitalimportance such as the contribution indigenous peoplescan make to development and conservation in termsof knowledge, practice, and participation in decisionmaking and planning. Although this volume does notaddress the question of ethnocide, its importance liesin its clear demonstration that there is a viable alternativeto those who argue that ethnocide is an unavoidableconsequence of development.~ 1. 46 ~Milner, Clyde A. With Good Intentions: Quaker Workamong the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s.Lincoln, and London: University of Nebraska Press,1982. LC 81-16238. ISBN 0-8032-3066-4.Milner offers a comparative study of the interactionsbetween state assimilation policies administeredby the Hicksite Quaker group, and the Pawnee, Oto,and Omaha Native American societies during the 1870s.Its usefulness lies in its comparative approach, whichhighlights the complexity of relations between andwithin these groups, and between different Indiansocieties of the Great Plains. Milner explores how theseinteractions affected Quaker endeavors which, despite"good "intentions, failed in their civilizing mission,largely because of the inadequacy of their powers ofenforcement. Unfortunately, the failure did not leaveIndian cultures intact but formed the thin-edge-of-thewedge,preparing the ground for increasing governmentprograms which undermined their traditional economic,social, and cultural 1ifestyles.~ 1. 47 *Moody, Roger, ed. The Indigenous Voice. Vols. 1 and2. London and Copenhagen: Zed Books Ltd. andInternational Work Group on Indigenous Affairs, 1988.ISBN 0-86232-305-3 (Zed); 0-86232-518-8 (Zed pa. ).Moody has compiled a two-volume anthology ofextracts from indigenous people, speaking of their ownplight and fight against genocide and ethnocide resultingfrom development and colonialism. The material isarranged thematically, and each chapter gives voiceEthnoci de 15