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Another great, great father helped convince some Piutes in Southern Utah to murder and ultimately for awhile, take the blame an Arkansas wagon train.
I understand the history is complex, but reading Brown opens ones eyes to the theme's that happened when an expanding America ran into America's native people. The same theme was played again and again because it worked for white Americans : 1. White Americans would start invading native territorial land 2. A treaty would be signed allowing those from a certain tribe to keep a certain amount of land, in exchange for food or provisions 3. Some of the tribe would sign because of greed or threats.
Food wouldn't be given, or would be stolen, and the land boundaries would not be respected. Gold, minerals, farmable land, etc. The treaty would again me disrespected. The tribe would be provoked, often slaughtered. Indians would respond. The Army would come in and slaughter more.
Tribes would be moved from their land, to disagreeable land somewhere distant. Members of the tribe would die from illness. Leaders of the tribe would become disgruntaled because of mistreatment, lies, and poor conditions.
Leaders would be imprissioned or assassinated. Rinse and repeat. Again and again. Again, history is complex. Many of the actors I respected from Civil War history had a horrible relationship with Native Americans. There were a few men in this book that indeed were heroic. White men occasionally acted with dignity towards Native Americans. But the exceptions were VERY exceptional.
Often, we treated the American Indian as something to be removed, destroyed, cheated, profited off, and mostly ignored. I think not much has changed. We now don't destroy Native Americans with guns.
We either ignore them, dilute them, or just continue to take more and more. Having come from a military family of helicopter pilots and calvary officers, I've always found it ironic how the Army now mythologizes the American Indian. From slogans like "Hoka hey! It's a good day to die.
Many live and train on bases that were formerly used to fight or house captured Native Americans. It is odd. The easiest expanation for me is we reverence in certain areas the American Indian, so we don't have to feel guilt for our Nation's treatment of and our Nation's responsibilty for what we did to the various tribes of Native Americans. Would you consider the audio edition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to be better than the print version? Having never read the print version, I couldn't say.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable? I wouldn't change anything. It's a compassionate and sympathetic reading. Like all audiobooks it can really express that 3rd or 1st person narrative in a way that reading print does not.
There's less projection of the reader into the text. Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? I did not have an extreme reaction. Any additional comments? If a person is unfamiliar with the history of Native Americans and their relationship with the first generations of European settlers, this book is an absolute must-read. It is a history of peoples and societies utterly rent from lands lived upon for thousands of years, by a wholly alien invasion.
It is sympathetic to aboriginal Americans, but certainly not unfair to the Europeans whose ingress unto the American continent meant the end of an epoch. Those familiar with the history of Native American and early Europeans may find this book dated, and overly simplistic. Much progress has been made in telling the story of Native Americans since Brown published this book in , but this criticism is really the ultimate compliment to an author and book that set a standard for examining US history with deep scrutiny, while challenging readers and fellow historians to dig deeper.
In subsequent years, the body of literature about these topics has expanded exponentially and some of Browns most controversial theses are now accepted wildly, if not universally, but those who engage regularly with the problem of US History.
Dee Brown has written some other quality books, but he would deserve a reputation as one of the more readable historians on America's 19th century even if he had never written another word. A true classic, the perspective of which was long overdue when it appeared, this book was as moving for me this year - expertly narrated by Grover Gardner - as it was years ago when I first read it for myself.
The shameful treatment of native-American tribes by officials of the federal government at the highest levels, and by the military, should be impossible for any decent person to defend - if considered from the native side. No one has ever presented that side as well as Brown. His research is wide-ranging and his writing is effective.
This book is a true paradigm-shifter. No one with an interest in U. Great book, even better book for those who enjoy learning about American history and even better for those who are interested in learning about how the Natives were raped, slaughtered and had their land stolen from them.
I especially enjoyed how each chapter began with a brief time line of what was going on in terms of history and curent events during those specific years that the book is discussing. Excellent narrator too! He did a great job in reading this book and captivated the listener.
There was so much great information in this book, I will definitely need to listen to it again just to try to digest everything. I've read this book twice so when I saw it in Audible I jumped at it.
It did not disappoint for my third go around. Very engaging yet sad as to how we treated the Native peoples. The book was well written, well read, and very specific, rather than having a pan-American Indian style of generalizing. Who was your favorite character and why? This book is full of many real life heroes, why pick only one. Which character — as performed by Grover Gardner — was your favorite? Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? I have had this book on my wish list of reads for years, and even bought a couple copies but never got around to it as I don't have much time to sit down and read , but thanks to it being available on audiobook, I have finally listened to it, and was not dissapointed at all.
I lost many nights sleep due to not being able to "put it down" what is the listening version to that term? Black Kettle's forthright position, and his subsequent betrayal.
The book is a fine work. Although it feels like repetition in the accounts of the U. Army massacres, I suppose there is no other way to drive the point home in a brutally frank manner - the repetition in the book exists because the repetition in history exists - the. It's the same cycle over and over again. So sad Very good book, I recommend it.
I never knew what really happened to the Indians when they encountered the White man. They sure took it hard from the Military. I will be listening to this story again. Even though, 40 years after this book was first published, we are now familiar with the events that took place in the American mid-West in the nineteenth century, listening to this was both shocking and saddening. It is one long tale of continually broken treaties, of moving the native Americans out of their homelands to poor land, and then on to even worse land, again and again, where they would be unable to sustain themselves and become dependent on government handouts from corrupt agents.
Any who didn't want to move would just be annihilated without compunction or conscience. There were a few brave stands by the native Americans along the ways, temporary victories, but these just proved to be short lived stays of execution.
Dee Brown's telling of the tale is well-researched, beautifully written and the narration by Grover Gardener is excellent. Despite the anger and sadness that the book provokes I found it compelling and hard to stop listening. I have to admit I came close to the book entirely wrong. It took me concerning web pages to completely comprehend the approach of Brown. His approach is to offer a review of the oppressions, however from the viewpoint of the Citizens.
This reveals the simpleness of the Natives; really, it is their simplicity and lack of understanding of European cunning that is their downfall. From this viewpoint, the book is a literary work of art. It needs to be said that the Natives did commit some atrocities.
Nonetheless, contrasting the atrocities of the Europeans with the atrocities of the Natives will show that any person that uses the war crimes of the Natives as a reason or reason for their termination is simply deluded. The Citizens dedicated some errors; however, those blunders were developed from despair, not from option, and from what I have actually seen, they were done in retaliation.
Nonetheless, it was wrong.
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