Deloria contends that blacks seek a socioeconomic redress from Anglo-Americans, but native Americans seek a legal redress. In support, he asserts that the main goal of Anglo-Americans has been to take the land and its resources from the native Americans. Deloria maintains that Anglo-Americans have reduced blacks, Indians, and other minorities to animals.
     Anglo-Americans in the new world have continued a tradition of barbarism from the old: survival of the economically and socially fittest has been the pattern of relationships among people in Anglo-American and European cultures.
     Centralization has been a feature of European feudalism and modern capitalism. Europeans feel they must “centralize” to defend themselves, since they view history as a plot against themselves: nature is hostile and must be overcome.