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A review by amslersf
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
3.0
This sat on my shelf for a long time. I had found it in an old Mission used book shop. Anybody remember the one in the basement of an old Edwardian towards Dolores Park?
Although Brown doesn't use the term, US Military and political intervention with Native Americans comes across so clearly as a sophisticated and intentional genocidal campaign that lasted decades as White settlers cleared lands west of the Mississippi. There is no epilogue about how people and cultures have survived and exist today so you are left only with the images of massacres along sandy river banks. This is a powerful book filled with first hand accounts.
Although Brown doesn't use the term, US Military and political intervention with Native Americans comes across so clearly as a sophisticated and intentional genocidal campaign that lasted decades as White settlers cleared lands west of the Mississippi. There is no epilogue about how people and cultures have survived and exist today so you are left only with the images of massacres along sandy river banks. This is a powerful book filled with first hand accounts.