New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central America

Lois Meyer and Benjamin Maldonado Alvarado, eds. New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central America. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2010. 300 pp. Paper, $18.95.

Lois Meyer and Benjamin Maldonado Alvarado have provided an invaluable resource in their interview of Noam Chomsky and their facilitation of analysis of his thoughts by leading indigenous activists and scholars from throughout the Americas. This is one of the first times such a diverse group of indigenous activists have given voice to their unique and creative dynamics of resistance to the new forms of colonialism.

Through strategic placement of responses of indigenous scholars in their interviews, Meyer and Maldonado have created a collective overview of the current state...