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Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown ISBN: 0-8050-6669-1 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (99 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An American history must-read
Comment: As a student and fan of history I have read probably thousands of fiction, non-fiction and 'semi-fiction' books, but this could be the most powerful and affecting of them all.
Although this book only covers a thirty-year portion of the early history between European settlers and the native peoples of the United States, the repetitive nature of the encounters depicted fully displays the shameful truths that school textbooks and most Western movies hid, ignored, misrepresented or lied about. In EACH case, the settlers - and later, the U.S. government itself - deceived, cheated, manipulated and brutalized the indigenous people. It began before the 1860s and - take it from a person on the scene - it continues to this very day, only by more subtle and low-profile methods.
My respect for the author is immense because the history is well-researched and documented and is presented in an even tone that makes the emotional impact of the tragic and infuriating proceedings even more powerful.
This book caused me to see the stereotypical depictions from my youth of Indians as cruel and vicious savages in a much different light, because it brought me to ask myself if I and my fellow Caucasian Americans would act any differently when responding to an outside, invading force assaulting our country and trying to take possession of this country we consider our homeland.
I highly recommend this book to anyone, novice or 'expert', who is interested in American history and/or Native American people.
Rating: 5
Summary: How the West Was Lost
Comment: This works from Dee Brown is a view of the terrible Nazi-Reich-like nature of the Westward expansion of Europeans through 'the New World', and the toll it took on the people already living there. This book should be a required history book in high school and college American History courses. Dee Brown did a great deal of research and traveled all throughout America to make sure he got the story from both sides- whites and Indians. Sadly, as a white American, reading this makes me realize that I should not be proud of my forefathers, but ashamed. But more importantly, it gives me a vicarious view of what the Indians went through (and continue to struggle with), in the name of manifest destiny.
What makes this account unique is that it is very scholarly while being very moving at the same time. As a whole, in a factual, heart-wrenching way Dee Brown has captured the Native American's attempts to survive genocide. When you finish, the title of the book will come back to you in a different way.
Rating: 5
Summary: It makes me angry.......
Comment: This book first of all has fantastic details and has the closest depictions of the Indian Wars during this time period. I've read some of the other reviews and was disappointed to see certain comments made about how one-sided or biased this book was. It was from the Native American's point of views but much of it was all too true. Sure it wasn't right that the Indians attacked settlements but then again, was it right for white settlers to come in and take over land that was already inhabited to begin with? They believed in Manifest Destiny and that they had the right to supposed "free land" and that because primitives just lived on it and because they didn't farm it, they really had no rights to it. A good "modern example" would be this, how would you like it if the government was to move you from your home in which you had settled in and you liked the area, but then they kept moving you from house to house until you were put in an area that had nothing. Especially, in a centralized location where your food supply was taken away and instead the government had purposely given you a rotten supply of food. Tepees back then were like the RV's of today. They were not permanent homes for the Indians, but they started using them because they were always getting pushed further out to the West out of their villages all over the U.S. When flight was no longer an option, sadly, the only thing left for the Natives was fight... I realize this book in some ways seem controversial but I'll put it as my college History teacher had mentioned, this book is the closest thing to the real deal.
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Title: Trail of Tears by GLORIA JAHODA ISBN: 0517146770 Publisher: Wings Press Pub. Date: 06 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War by Merrill D. Beal ISBN: 0295740094 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.16 |
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Title: Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas (50th Anniversary Edition) by Mari Sandoz, Stephen B. Oates ISBN: 0803292112 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by Black Elk, John Gneisenau Neihardt, Nicholas Black Elk, Vine, Jr. Deloria ISBN: 0803261705 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0140144560 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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