Jack D. Forbes was one of the first to propose a counter-story from the Native American perspective: he removed the word "cannibal" from Christopher Columbus's lips and reversed the accusation.
To the heroic vision of the conquest of the West, he opposes a clear and scathing thesis: Western capitalist civilization and the conquest of the New World are based on exploitation, domination, murder and greed, pathologies that the Amerindians call wetiko .
This book is an invitation to think about the future of our societies without the notion of profit, to protect ourselves from capitalist practices and the relationships of domination that they induce, and to restore the broken link between humanity and the terrestrial ecosystem of which it is a part.
This first French translation of Jack D. Forbes's work is by Frédéric Moreau.