Reading List by Jennie for May and June

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

When this book was published in 1970, it was hailed as one of the first books to chronicle the destruction of the American Indian tribes in the midwest and western United State solely from the American Indian perspective. As such, it’s undoubtedly an important and worthy historical document. Speaking simply as a reader, it didn’t work that well for me. The writing was dry and repetitive. I feel somewhat callous for saying that, because part of the r...