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4.4 AVERAGE
4.4 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
medium-paced
While this book is important, it is hard to read. The reality of our past is hard to face but denying it will not make it go away.
"The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth" - L. Frank Baum, 1891
"The colonization of North America has been the decisive fact of the modern world. Jefferson was its architect. Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi."
"The fledgling United States government's method of dealing with native people - a process which then included systematic genocide, property theft, and total subjugation - reached its nadir in 1830 under the federal policy of President Andrew Jackson. More than any other president, he used forcible removal to expel the eastern tribes from their land. From the very birth of the nation, the United States government truly had carried out a vigorous operation of extermination and removal. Decades before Jackson took office, during the administration of Thomas Jefferson, it was already cruelly apparent to many Native American leaders that any hope for tribal autonomy was cursed. So were any thoughts of a peaceful coexistence with white citizens."
I learned a lot reading this book and I think that is the ultimate goal of the author.
"The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth" - L. Frank Baum, 1891
"The colonization of North America has been the decisive fact of the modern world. Jefferson was its architect. Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi."
"The fledgling United States government's method of dealing with native people - a process which then included systematic genocide, property theft, and total subjugation - reached its nadir in 1830 under the federal policy of President Andrew Jackson. More than any other president, he used forcible removal to expel the eastern tribes from their land. From the very birth of the nation, the United States government truly had carried out a vigorous operation of extermination and removal. Decades before Jackson took office, during the administration of Thomas Jefferson, it was already cruelly apparent to many Native American leaders that any hope for tribal autonomy was cursed. So were any thoughts of a peaceful coexistence with white citizens."
I learned a lot reading this book and I think that is the ultimate goal of the author.
This should be a required reading for middle/high school curriculum. An eye opening and uncomfortable look into the our history from the lens of Indigenous People.
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Me ha interesado mucho la parte que cuenta cómo se ocuparon y colonizaron estado que antes eran de México. También ver cómo muchos de los comportamientos actuales de Estados Unidos en política exterior son pura inspiración en su historia colonial. De todas formas, me hubiera gustado que se centrara algo más en la situación indígena actual…
8/10
8/10
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
"They did not settle a virgin land. They invaded and displaced a resident population. This is so simple a fact that it seems self-evident." - Francis Jennings, historian
It's been a few years since I last opened a history book for school, from what I remember of them, I feel like they don't tell the full story of how the "Europeans created the 'Doctrine of Discovery' to justify their takeover of any territory they "discovered" regardless of whose home it was. From an Indigenous perspective, European claims to Indigenous lands were not legitimate."
After reading through this book and learning more information, the history that I remember learning now feels a bit sanitized and white washed in the way that it is presented.
Part of what I learned in this books was the fact that the word, 'redskins' came about during a time when the early settlers killed and scalped the Native people and saw that the blood made the mutilated skin look red. Or the fact that the early settlers were basically squatters and that genocide happened whether through biological or chemical warfare.
Something else that I learned, but hadn't really considered before, was the way that the Native people had well established routes, whether water or over land, that they used to cross the country.
"Historian Frederick Jackson Turner believed, wrongly, that Indigenous North American cultures had no real influence on the settlers except as roadblocks to progress. He viewed Native cultures as backward and primitive in comparison to the settlers' culture, which he saw as dynamic and sophisticated."
It's been a few years since I last opened a history book for school, from what I remember of them, I feel like they don't tell the full story of how the "Europeans created the 'Doctrine of Discovery' to justify their takeover of any territory they "discovered" regardless of whose home it was. From an Indigenous perspective, European claims to Indigenous lands were not legitimate."
After reading through this book and learning more information, the history that I remember learning now feels a bit sanitized and white washed in the way that it is presented.
Part of what I learned in this books was the fact that the word, 'redskins' came about during a time when the early settlers killed and scalped the Native people and saw that the blood made the mutilated skin look red. Or the fact that the early settlers were basically squatters and that genocide happened whether through biological or chemical warfare.
Something else that I learned, but hadn't really considered before, was the way that the Native people had well established routes, whether water or over land, that they used to cross the country.
"Historian Frederick Jackson Turner believed, wrongly, that Indigenous North American cultures had no real influence on the settlers except as roadblocks to progress. He viewed Native cultures as backward and primitive in comparison to the settlers' culture, which he saw as dynamic and sophisticated."
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Violence, War
Minor: Genocide, Slavery, Torture, Police brutality, Murder
Absolutely life changing; a must read for everybody on the true history of the land we live on
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Colonisation
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Classism, Deportation
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