The Earth Shall Weep (ePub)

James Wilson was born in 1948, and brought up near Cambridge, England. After attending a small village school, run by an eccentric but brilliant teacher who fired his enthusiasm for history and stories, he was educated first at a 'progressive' boarding school (which he hated); then at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (which he loved); and finally at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read History. While still at Oxford he wrote his first attempt at a novel (now mercifully lost), and began to develop his deep interest in native north American history and culture. After working variously as a clerk at Oxfam, an English teacher, and an assistant in a children's home in London-all the while trying to write fiction, and researching his historical interests-in 1973 James persuaded the Minority Rights Group in London to commission him to produce a report on the native people of Canada. This project involved an extensive trip to indigenous communities from Quebec to Alberta, and led to the offer of a Ford Foundation grant to research and write a companion piece on the Indians of the United States, which was published in 1976. In the same year, at the invitation of the Canadian National Indian Brotherhood, James attended the first World Congress of Indigenous Peoples on Vancouver Island. From 1976 to 1990, James was Director of Studies at the British and European Studies Group, an academically-intensive programme for US undergraduates in London. He continued to write during this period-producing articles, new editions of his MRG reports, and several plays-and remained active in native North American issues through his involvement with Survival International, a London-based charity campaigning for tribal peoples' rights, for which he served (and still serves) as a board-member and consultant. In 1989, James was asked to act as consultant for a British TV film, Hunters and Bombers (dir. Hugh Brody, Channel 4, 1990; winner of the Mannheim Festival Best Documentary

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