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“The future will not be mad with loss and waste, though the memory will be. Be there; eyes will become kind and deep and the bones of this nation will mend…after the revolution.” -Simon Ortiz
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Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation
Took me a week to slog through this book. As such, I will continue my search for a meaningful (to me) history book of the Native American tribes that lived on this land long before they were conquered by white men. I would love to learn about what their daily life looked like beforehand, their developments in culture, their philosophy and the traditions they held dear before they were moved, conquered and killed. I think I need a book written from a Native American for this perspective and not a US Historian. I will continue searching for this book…
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3.5 starts. This book is a solid primer to the history of genocide European settlers and their descendants inflicted on Indigenous People. But perhaps such a sweeping history is too much for 236 pages. I found this book to be frustratingly dense and devoid of the personal stories that made Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States so compelling. It was real work to get through this book. Still, I'm glad I did; learning this history should be required of all Americans.
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One of the most informative books i have ever read.
I had a little knowledge of US history from an Indigenous perspective, but this book explained and expanded that history in a way that was engaging and easy to understand.
As a side note: reading this book reminded me just how similar the colonizer US government treatment of Native populations was to Hitler's treatment of the Jewish populations. This is because Hitler was actually inspired by the US. This is something everyone should know.