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A review by ethan0lsen
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.5
The history of the Native Americans is one often glossed over in modern American history classes, so Dee Brown’s study filled in a major hole in my education.
The unfortunate fact is that the history is repetitively bleak as individual nations were repeatedly terrorized by the same systems, tactics, and people who only sought to take everything of importance from them.
Though an incredibly difficult and often depressing read, the experience is still rewarding as the care with which Brown approached this project is obvious in the immense detail given to each nation. Photographic collections are compiled for each group and for each nation we mourn, there are even some of their main songs included so you can get a more complete picture of their character.
If there was a way to make this required reading for all Americans at some point during our education, I would
The unfortunate fact is that the history is repetitively bleak as individual nations were repeatedly terrorized by the same systems, tactics, and people who only sought to take everything of importance from them.
Though an incredibly difficult and often depressing read, the experience is still rewarding as the care with which Brown approached this project is obvious in the immense detail given to each nation. Photographic collections are compiled for each group and for each nation we mourn, there are even some of their main songs included so you can get a more complete picture of their character.
If there was a way to make this required reading for all Americans at some point during our education, I would