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A review by meagers32
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
4.0
King is incredibly talented in how he neatly crams SO MUCH information into one average length book.
I love King’s dark humour and his straight-up no eff’s given fact sharing. I had my jaw on the ground for some of the things I read in this - colonialism and white supremacy is fricken horrible y’all. We also have a lot of work to do and some heads to pull out of asses.
I give this a 4 because while the information and stories are so so SO important and well-presented, I was often wishing the book were done.
Much of this information is not new to me (Social Studies minor), though the information about American Indigenous concerns is very interesting and not talked about in any of the Canadian history courses I had to take.
All-in-all, the information in this book should be read by EVERYONE. Not just academics. Not just Indigenous people. Not just white settler Canadians / Americans. Everyone. Though prepared to be gut-punched a few times.
If I would have picked up this book and not struggled through some of it, I would have given it a 5. Though valuable information, it was a LOT, case study after case study. Some of it felt a bit repetitious. This all being said, PLEASE READ THIS BOOK.
I love King’s dark humour and his straight-up no eff’s given fact sharing. I had my jaw on the ground for some of the things I read in this - colonialism and white supremacy is fricken horrible y’all. We also have a lot of work to do and some heads to pull out of asses.
I give this a 4 because while the information and stories are so so SO important and well-presented, I was often wishing the book were done.
Much of this information is not new to me (Social Studies minor), though the information about American Indigenous concerns is very interesting and not talked about in any of the Canadian history courses I had to take.
All-in-all, the information in this book should be read by EVERYONE. Not just academics. Not just Indigenous people. Not just white settler Canadians / Americans. Everyone. Though prepared to be gut-punched a few times.
If I would have picked up this book and not struggled through some of it, I would have given it a 5. Though valuable information, it was a LOT, case study after case study. Some of it felt a bit repetitious. This all being said, PLEASE READ THIS BOOK.