A review by mollysmith1313
Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Sonia Paoloni, Christian Staebler

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Yes, it’s a book about the origins of Redbone. But it also mentions the American Indian Movement (AIM), United Indians of All Tribes occupying Alcatraz, the Heart of the Earth Survival School, and the Trail of Broken Treaties, the mass slaughter of Lakotas at Wounded Knee, and the occupation and siege of Wounded Knee in 1973. And how Redbone’s song, “We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee,” was a political song banned in the U.S., but played in Europe. Then it talked about the band breaking up, and what happened to all the members after that.