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The author sees the skirmishes at the UN in which US has been engaged For quite some time now as a prelude to a real war on the world body. This he characterizes as the fourth world war in which the first salvos were fired by the US representative John Scali on 6 December, 1974. The conflict has an economic dimension: The US is dead set against a new economic order, which the poor countries are clamoring for, because it would necessitate the scaling down of its reckless overconsumption; it is dead set, too, against allocating 1% of its GNP (which is one-third of what it spent on the Vietnam war) to the development of Third World countries. The conflict has also an ethnic dimension, both direct and indirect. Direct racial prejudice was in evidence during the discussions on South Africa and Isreal; indirect prejudice stems from the belief that the US is God's gift to the world, which leads the US to equate its own good with the good of the world. This war could be halted if US citizens created, through their movements, the kind of climate in which US courts could act on the ground that the US Constitution makes the UN Charter 'the supreme law of the land'.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: A Fourth World Resurgent -- The Fourth World -- Foreword -- Authors' Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Does Indians Have Feelings? -- 1. Mutual Dependence -- 2. Strong Medicine -- 3. The Earth and My Grandmother -- 4. We Honour Our Grandfathers Who Kept Us Alive -- 5. Scratching for a Start -- 6. Becoming a Fisher of Men -- 7. The Decade of Consultation -- 8. The Daily Struggle Now -- 9. The Fourth World -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

"Originally published in 1974, The Fourth World is a critical work of Indigenous political activism. George Manuel, a leader in the North American Indian movement at that time, with coauthor journalist Michael Posluns, presents a rich historical document that traces the struggle for Indigenous survival as a nation, a culture, and a reality"--

Fourth World theory is a methodology for examining and developing greater understanding of the extent of the distress and abandonment commonly found in the cores of American cities resulting from de-industrialization, historic segregation and discrimination patterns, suburban sprawl, erosion of a viable tax base, racism, inability to embrace the concept of desegregation and civil rights legislation, fear, despair, crumbling infrastructure systems, disinvestment in urban school systems, and environmental justice issues. This article uses the analytical lens of Fourth World theory to examine how such structural and cultural forces contributed to the severely distressed conditions now found in the city of Gary, Indiana. Tracking its one-hundred-year history, from its founding as an industrial town through its post-industrial decline occurring during the city's first African-American mayor's five terms in office, the methodology clearly demonstrates how the social construction of race has systematically undermined every aspect of Gary's overall quality of life. To illustrate that this city is not an anomaly but rather reflects a typical pattern of disparity and uneven development arising from racist practices, Gary is compared to other cities of similar size and also to the much larger Detroit. The article triangulates academic literature, news media archives, and an oral history provided by the mayor to show how Gary evolved from being a model industrial city to a cauldron of racial disparity. The paper concludes by arguing that continued absence of reflection on the nation's historical racialization of place threatens not just impoverished communities of color, but also the sustainability of the entire nation.