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This is a Modern piece .

Amerindia appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Hear the Grass  (Listen)
As with the Australian aborigine, the indigenous people of the Americas have had no great cause to celebrate their 'discovery' by Europeans some five hundred years ago. Since the time of the early conquistadores, contact with the white man has heralded extinction for the American 'Indian' on both continents. Imported disease, slavery, forced conversion to an alien religion, murder by sword and bullet has reduced once proud and populous tribes to a mere remnant of acculturated and demoralised beggars, herded into human zoos to become objects of anthropological study or tourist attraction, or in the case of some forest-dwellers, left to the mercy of ruthless loggers and prospectors. Unless world opinion (that's you and me!) can persuade governments and development agencies to change their policies towards these "progress hindering minorities", then when we are sipping our last drop of drinkable water and breathing our last lungful of pure air, these people will have already vanished!