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to a wide range of struggles throughout the world. Thisallows the reader to draw out similarities in protest andin processes of destruction. Volume 1 concentratesupon forms of oppression while Volume 2 focuses uponethnic cultural and political revivals. Although noconclusions are drawn to tie the material together, thesevolumes provide students ofhuman rights and developmentwith an invaluable and extensive range of primarydata. It is a challenging, unique collection which speaksstraight from the heart.* 1. 48 ~Morgan, Sally. My Place. London: Virago, 1987. ISBN0-85210-199-7.In her autobiographical account of her realizationof Aborigine identity, Morgan personalizes the consequencesof Australian state policies of child abductionand forced assimilation. My Place is a valuable contribution.~ 1. 49 ~Munzel, Mark. The Ache Indians: Genocide in Paraguay.IWGIA Document no. 11. Copenhagen: InternationalWork Group on Indigenous Affairs, 1973.Munzel's detailed report outlines the plight of theAche Indians of Paraguay. Their situation in the early1970s, as witnessed by the author, is set in a historicalcontext of war against the Ache since colonization. Theauthorities condone manhunts and massacres. Theforced removal of Ache to reserves has been thesolution to the problem of violence from the early1960s. Ache held captive on the reserves are subjectto white administrative abuse, such as sexual exploitation,theft of food relief, violence, and the continuedsale of young children to Paraguayans as a source ofcheap labor. Disease and death are commonplace andthere are no sanitary facilities or preventative medicalsupplies. Ache culture is demonstrably suppressed,resulting in demoralization, loss of identity, and aperception of self as neither Ache nor human, but as"half-dead. " Munzel makes clear that this is not apolicy of modernization but the work of specificindividuals who receive indirect state support. Hisreport names names while he notes the sympathetic roleof the Jesuits.~ 1. 50 ~Neterowicz, Eva M. 7he Tragedy of Tibet. Washington,DC: The Council for Social and Economic Studies,1989. ISBN 0-930690-22-2.In a slim volume, the author introduces the readerto the current abuses in Tibet by Chinese imperialists.Since their invasion in 1950, the Chinese "haveconducted a systematic persecution against the Tibetanpeople and their culture and religion" (p. 7) in orderto prevent uprisings of Tibetan nationalism. Theauthor's briefly traced history of invasion and oppressionculminates in an outline of the situation since1987. The three main methods used to destroy Tibetanidentity are the division of Tibet into separatelyadministered and renamed provinces; "brutal suppression"by the military of expressions of Tibetan culture;and the transmigration of huge numbers of Chinese intoTibet. International, particularly United States, concernis noted.~ 1. 51 ~Newson, Linda A. Indian Survival in Colonial Ni caragua.Norman, OK, and London: University of OklahomaPress, 1987. LC 86-40078. ISBN 0-8061-2008-8.Indian Survival is a detailed study of culturalsurvival, deculturation and cultural integration, andtransformation among Nicaraguan indigenes underSpanish colonization. Two Indian cultural types arechiefdoms and tribes — which were separatedidentified —geographically. The main forces of civilization andChristianization were missionaries, although Spanishadministration exerted some influence on the "Westernfringe" of colonization. A substantial part of the bookis given to processes of deculturation, particularlyChapter 3 and Section 4, covering the period 1522-1720. Population decline due to famine, disease, andinfanticide had negative repercussions upon the structureof Indian society, as did the Spanish destructionof existing foims of political organization and theexploitativegrant system and the missions. Comparisonis made to other South American states.*1. 52 *Ohland, Klaudine, and Robin Schneider, eds. NationalRevolutionandIndigenousIdentity. IWGIA Documentno. 47. Copenhagen: International Work Group onIndigenous Affairs, 1983.Ohland and Schneider have edited a collection ofpapers on the conflict between the Nicaraguan Sandin-istas and the Miskitos, an indigenous people of theAtlantic Coast who demonstrated their resistance topolicies of national integration by supporting the anti-Sandinista insurgency mounted from Honduras in 1982.The high fatalities inflicted on both sides promptedlarge scale flight into Honduras and resulted in forcibleresettlement of the remaining seven to eight thousand.As a result of this drastic change in socio-economicorganization, the Miskito traditional way of life hasbeen severely threatened. The collection seeks toillustrate the complexity of relations between theMiskitos and Sandinistas which led to this situation.16 GENOCIDE