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Summary: A hard, emotional read and worth every second.
Review: I always wondered how the Native Americans ended up on reservations. Why did they give up there land? Why didn't they just live peacefully with the whites? Why did they end up on the worst land in the nation?This book answers all those questions and more. I am saddened by the amount of treachery involved in the treaties with the Indian tribes. I had never heard an account told from the tribe's perspective before and wow! Is it ever different from the history taught in school! This book is a hard, emotional read and worth every second. I also greatly enjoyed the pictures of the Chiefs and others involved. There are some truly beautiful portraits. I would say if you only read one book about the settling of America read this one.
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Summary: Hidden History
Review: Nothing could prepare me for the emotional effect that "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" would have on me. Dee Brown brings us the history of the white settlement of the American West as told by the people who were there, both white and Indian. This is not the history we learned in school, and the book will shatter the images of many of our heroes, but the story is important enough that I think every American should read it. I also recommend "The Trail of Tears", by Gloria Jahoda, which is the history of the removal of the eastern tribes to the west. These two books are neccessary if you, as an American, want a complete education of American History. Beyond education, these books present a people who loved the earth, trusted and respected mankind, and lived honorable lives. I trust that these stories of the near annihilation of our native people at the hands of our forefathers will effect you in unexpected ways, and that you will come away from the experience with new heroes, and a broken heart.
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Summary: A must-read for every American
Review: As someone of Native American descent, I grew up with this book. To me, it is one of the most important books ever written on the "Indian Wars". Upon reading this book you can realize why American Indians are offended by the US celebrating "Colombus Day" and the images and flasehoods that surround the "Thanksgiving" holidays. It is a riveting, truthful account that will make you re-think the things you were taught in your history class. Let me give you fair warning, however, it is a dense and information packed historical account, not a novel and not light reading.
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Summary: Everyone should read this book
Review: I have never before read a book like this. It is utterly fascinating, a real page turner, and yet it makes you ashamed of something that happened many years before your birth. Ashamed because you know that similar things are happening elsewhere in the world, and ashamed becuase we never seem to learn from our mistakes. On a lighter note this is a meticulous essay on a life long lost, and country unspoiled and beautiful, and a world we will never be lucky enough to know. If you only read one book in a year, make it this one.
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Summary: A Book That Does Not Angelize
Review: The typical reaction is to angelize a people that our nation has oppressed for over a century. This is not the truth, although demonizing the native Americans went hand in hand with the systematic extermination of their culture. Dee Brown takes an even-handed tone in this well-crafted narrative, journeying through the American West with the advancement of the United States, each step a broken treaty. As the world of the Native Americans is rapidly erroded, reactions are mixed: to treat the invaders as other Indian populations always fails, as this is a new enemy unlike any ever seen in tribal societies. Raids and skirmishes do not deter aggression--they only invite punishment. The invasion of civilization is inexorable, and when this becomes obvious Brown does an excellent job of covering the various attempts Native Americans make to assimilate with the invaders. Our nation is by no means innocent. We are imperialists by history just as other nations have been. The only difference is that we took a mass of land contiguous with our nation, while Europeans sought patches of land on other continents. Manifest destiny is revealed for what it is--and the Native Americans are revealed for the human victims they were.
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Summary: reviewers are sadistic apologists
Review: The "dynamically expanding" genocide which Amazon praises while gushing about the indigenous population of "their" country sets the tone for the New York Times & Washington Post's cloying emotionalism. Urban neo-liberals should stop reading their own mental instability into this great text, and just merit it by how many copies it has sold.
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Summary: I cried, I weeped, I felt ashamed.
Review: I'm sixteen years old, and I am extremely disappointed that this book is not taught in the US History classes in my high school. We just finished a unit on the Civil War and Reconstruction, and although all of these terrible events were occuring during this time period, we haven't discussed them, or even mentioned them in class. The irony is, that I chose this book specifically for a project in US History, and I am incredibly glad I did. There is not a more compelling, heartbreakingly true story of American history than this. It, in many ways, is comparable to "Uncle Tom's Cabin", in the effect it created with its arrival into the world.
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Summary: If you only read one book make it THIS ONE
Review: This is a book that should be required reading of every American before graduating high school. Perhaps then the true balanced story of the Native American Holocaust perpetrated on Americas' First Nations can start to be recognized to be as great as that done by Nazi Germany to the Jewish people.
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Summary: Undisputably, this book is excellent incredibly perfect !
Review: Actually at this juncture i have not much to yell-out about this version but only could say to those who enjoys just the love of reading,"This is the book to hunt for in the market. I am saying this because you do not only enjoy the staff- you LEARN ABOUT OTHER NATIONS HISTTORY TOO! JUST ATTEMPT GIVE IT A TRY YOU`LL BELIEVE ME BUDDY, CHECK IT OUT LEST YOU MISS THE HONEY POT.
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Summary: A strong eye opening account of how the west was really won
Review: This book has opened my eyes to the brutality and genocide that this country has always promised to destroy.What we have done to the aborignal people of this continent is no less than stalin and hitler.The saddest part is that it is still happening, if we continue to overlook these people and their customs it will not only be detremental to us and our children but to the earth itself.The native people found a way to live with earth, to be part of the ecological balance and still enjoy life to the fullest.Even with our computers and cars and cities with 1million plus people there is still a lesson to learn. Over the years equal rights in this country has been a fight for all minorities but the native people especially in america have been the last to be allowed to vote, hold political office, own property, and even to be allowed to worship in the way that have done for centuries. Read this book become aware of what our history is really like because unfortunely we are destined to repeat it. Dee brown writes a book that is poetic, easy to read @ understand, sad and heart warming just like the people he writes about. it just takes a little understanding of something that is new. thank-you
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