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Sociology Mind 2013. Vol.3, No.2, 156-178 Published Online April 2013 in SciRes (/journal/sm) /10.4236/sm.2013.32023 Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing, and Promoting Social Justice Asafa Jalata University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Email: ajalata@ Received January 19th rd th , 2013; revised February 23 , 2013; accepted March 4 , 2013 Copyright © 2013 Asafa Jalata. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribu- tion License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper explores the major consequences of the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system, colonial terrorism, and continued subjugation for indigenous Americans, Australians, and Afri- cans between the late fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Western powers as well as most of the descen- dants of European colonialists in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and in Africa and their regional and local collaborators deny or forget or minimize the crimes committed against indigenous peoples and claim that their ancestors spread modernity and civilization around the world. Not recognizing these crimes and ignoring or forgetting or minimizing them have far reaching consequences f