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A review by wastedwings
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
4.0
This book should be required reading for high school students in their US History classes. I listened to a painstaking 14 hour history lesson of perpetual genocide and rape. The "founding" of the US, laws and government (white supremacy under capitalism) has never been addressed and stopped. Repeated patterns can be seen of abuse leading up until modern day.
The only reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 is because I really did not like the narrator of the audiobook. The content itself is very well documented and organized.
It's crucial every generation of white Americans actually learn how our society was created instead of glossing over the subject. If we don't know the truth, we can't change the future to be better; do better.
“And so, in the summer of 1885, Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, traveling throughout the United States and into Canada. He drew tremendous crowds. Boos and catcalls sometimes sounded for the "Killer of Custer," but after each show these same people pressed coins upon him for copies of his signed photograph. Sitting Bull gave most of the money away to the band of ragged, hungry boys who seemed to surround him wherever he went. He once told Annie Oaklye, another one of the Wild West Show's stars, that he could not understand how white men could be so unmindful of their own poor. "The white man knows how to make everything,” he said, “but he does not know how to distribute it."”
The only reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 is because I really did not like the narrator of the audiobook. The content itself is very well documented and organized.
It's crucial every generation of white Americans actually learn how our society was created instead of glossing over the subject. If we don't know the truth, we can't change the future to be better; do better.
“And so, in the summer of 1885, Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, traveling throughout the United States and into Canada. He drew tremendous crowds. Boos and catcalls sometimes sounded for the "Killer of Custer," but after each show these same people pressed coins upon him for copies of his signed photograph. Sitting Bull gave most of the money away to the band of ragged, hungry boys who seemed to surround him wherever he went. He once told Annie Oaklye, another one of the Wild West Show's stars, that he could not understand how white men could be so unmindful of their own poor. "The white man knows how to make everything,” he said, “but he does not know how to distribute it."”