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ntawn0's review against another edition
5.0
An incredibly well-researched, but very difficult read. A book you have to put down and take a breath before continuing many times.
crazylady_usmc's review
5.0
As most already know this is truly a classic. In full color we get to see and experience the genocide committed by the whites. Always been a fan of this book, and find it important to be read more widely as the core elements of racism, and the use of police to brutally assault the innocent still very much exist today.
lazy_raven's review
4.0
Though it was very long, it was extremely informative. Re learned some things I had forgotten and learned alot of new things. Highly recommend for anyone who wants to know more than the whitewashed version of history we are taught in school. The audiobook is excellent quality.
book_concierge's review against another edition
5.0
Book on CD narrated by Grover Gardner
5*****
Subtitle: An Indian History of the American West
Brown’s interest in the history of the American West took him to many resources that were previously ignored in crafting the official textbooks from which millions were taught American history. This work is one attempt to correct the information so many thought they knew. Instead of reading accounts of glory and conquest, we are given the perspective of the Native Americans, who mostly wanted to live in peace and harmony with the white men. But the “civilized” society of white men would not be denied, and the government waged a continued war against the Indians with the intent of wiping them out.
Brown relates the systemic plunder of Native lands region by region, tribe by tribe, battle by battle, broken treaty by broken treaty. The reader comes to know the chiefs and their efforts to lead their people to a peaceful solution. The many photographs included help to put faces to some of the names we’ve come to know – Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Cochise. It is a very personal account. And it is heartbreaking.
Grover Gardner does a very good job of narrating the audiobook. But I think this is best read in text so the reader has time to absorb the information. I did have a copy of the text and I read about a third of it, listening to the rest.
5*****
Subtitle: An Indian History of the American West
Brown’s interest in the history of the American West took him to many resources that were previously ignored in crafting the official textbooks from which millions were taught American history. This work is one attempt to correct the information so many thought they knew. Instead of reading accounts of glory and conquest, we are given the perspective of the Native Americans, who mostly wanted to live in peace and harmony with the white men. But the “civilized” society of white men would not be denied, and the government waged a continued war against the Indians with the intent of wiping them out.
Brown relates the systemic plunder of Native lands region by region, tribe by tribe, battle by battle, broken treaty by broken treaty. The reader comes to know the chiefs and their efforts to lead their people to a peaceful solution. The many photographs included help to put faces to some of the names we’ve come to know – Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Cochise. It is a very personal account. And it is heartbreaking.
Grover Gardner does a very good job of narrating the audiobook. But I think this is best read in text so the reader has time to absorb the information. I did have a copy of the text and I read about a third of it, listening to the rest.
abaugher's review against another edition
5.0
History isn't really my thing but this was an eye opener. Everything I learned in school was wrong.