Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

2 reviews

shieldbearer's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This is a necessary read, especially if you're a US citizen

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Confinement, Racial slurs, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, and Trafficking

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Pregnancy

meganpbennett's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is one of those books that is impossible to rate. It's hard to read, talks of events in brutal ways, and exposes the injustices many Americans are blissfully unaware of. Dee Brown is an exceptional story-teller, incredibly talented in her art. She tells the tales in the oral story telling tradition, which makes the book harder to read, since you have to read it aloud to yourself while reading. It would make a great audiobook. 

A colleague recommended this book to me and anyone else who hasn't read it. And he's right - everyone needs to read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Torture

Minor: Rape, Alcoholism, and Religious bigotry