Reviews

How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America by

mcc004's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

fromthegarden's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

akoontz11's review against another edition

5.0

Very powerful stories, and generally just a great format for non-fiction: hearing folks explain their own lives, in their own terms. Makes me very interested to read other books from the Voice of Witness program.

Nonfiction that is both really heavy (because you learn of the terrible injustices Native people on this continent have suffered) and, remarkably, encouraging (because you learn of people who, despite this historic and current trauma, and achieving great things).

+"The Seventh Generation Prophecy portended a time seven generations after first contact when Indigenous youth and allies would come together to give rise to an age of healing and rebirth for Native people and the continent."
+Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851: the first treaty of the Great Sioux Nation

bmore_reads's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This is a must read. These first-person stories are very compelling, and I love that indigenous voices from Canada and the US are included. 

bookhails's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

tanirochelle's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

lizziethereader's review against another edition

4.0

This was a really educational, highly interesting, and infuriating read. Although there is a lot of depth to it, it never feels dense or overwhelming and I really enjoyed the first-hand accounts interspersed with additional background information and related essays at the end. 

vick_reads's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

eoppelt's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

mad_taylh's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

"...History as it has been taught to most North Americans too often excludes Indigenous peoples, treating them as peripheral to the continent's story."