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A review by siiriainen
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
1.0
A history of the genocide of America's indigenous people in the West in which the author continuously uses racist and antiquated terms to describe the indigenous groups he's writing about, the most obvious being his chosen term of "indian", but also describing the women as "squaws", calling them prehistoric and savage and so on.
I'm not against him describing the violence that the Comanche perpetrated in the West against other indigenous groups and white settlers, that is well documented. But to use colonizing and racist language when describing it is pretty gross. Shocked this was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011.
I'm not against him describing the violence that the Comanche perpetrated in the West against other indigenous groups and white settlers, that is well documented. But to use colonizing and racist language when describing it is pretty gross. Shocked this was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and Rape