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Title: Oblivion's Altar: A Novel of Courage by D. Marion Wilkinson, David Marion Wilkinson ISBN: 0-451-20546-4 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Struggle Continues
Comment: It was almost surreal reading this exceptional story of courage, frustration, dispair, hope and struggle. Although the events depicted in the book occurred some 200 years ago, they could easily be translated to recent times. I have met and seen the Kah-nung-da-tla-geb's of modern times. Proud people who are struggling to teach their children the old ways, yet realizing, as difficult it is to accept, that assimilation is a necessity to survive, to succeed. The Cherokee "exceeded all the Americans' expectations" in this regard and learned to use the "civilized ways" to their advantage, and it wasn't enough. In my little community, many have become educated, successful and assimilated, and, like long ago, it isn't enough. We are still considered "a thorn in their heel". This is a must read book for anyone who has struggled and dispaired, and who has loved family, heritage and country. I am not a "reader" but, like his previous book, NOT BETWEEN BROTHERS, I couldn't put it down. To David Marion Wilkinson, thanks - with respect and admiration.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Start Of White Euopeans Lies ?
Comment: I have been a student of Native American history for over forty years, mainly the period from the middle to end of the nineteenth century.
David Wilkinsons book, which I have just finished reading, has made me expand my interests to cover a much wider period.
Although a novel, I found it full of interesting points which aroused my interest in the broader spectrum of the Native Americans and their history, and I can pay David no higher praise when I say that, in my opinion, he has done for the Cherokee Nation what Mari Sandoz did for the Cheyenne Nation in her book "Cheyenne Autumn", made our generation aware of the lies and deceit and the inhuman treatment of the Native Americans by the White Europeans using the excuse of civilising the west.
Thank you David for a most enjoyable read.
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretty slow
Comment: Wilkinson can write a very entertaining novel. "Not Between Brothers" was really good, right in there with "Lonesome Dove". Oblivions Alter is really ponderous. I kept thinking it would get better but never happened. Now, if you are interested in this period's history, I would recommend it. It is well written for what it is. Entertainment it is not.
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Title: Not Between Brothers: An Epic Novel of Texas by David Marion Wilkinson ISBN: 0965187934 Publisher: Boaz Corporation Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol 169) by Thurman Wilkins ISBN: 0806121882 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Borderland : A Novel of Texas by Edwin Shrake ISBN: 0786884932 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 25 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan ISBN: 0141000023 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Speaks the Nightbird, Vol. 2: Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon ISBN: 0743471393 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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