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Oct 08, 2021
Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is the Native American story of the American West. In many ways the many stories told are all the same story: Native Americans are living happy lives in the West, and non-natives arrive and see the beauty of the land and make treaties with the native peoples and then immediately begin to break the treaties and scheme and lie and fight and kill in order to take their land. And it happens over and over and over again.
'"So tractable, so peaceable, are these people," C ...more
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What a sad book. As literature, it may be a little lacking. Brown kept his own voice out of this telling. He doesn't even provide a closing. It just ends with the final act of genocide and a quote by Black Elk. There is no summing it up. It leave you feeling empty, unfinished. No background or "character" development is given to any of the players. There are so many names thrown around, it became hard to keep track of who was who. Maybe this was all intentional, I am not really sure. It does giv
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This is one of the few books I can remember my Dad sitting down and reading. My Mom may even still have his copy. 54 years ago this book and the Native American Rights movement, along with the Vietnam War, legalizing abortion, and W ...more
The 1970 Club is Hosted by Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Simon at Stuck in a Book. Won’t you visit their blogs and leave them nice comments? They don’t get paid to host these events and there’s a good bit of work involved in doing one.
My Interest
This is one of the few books I can remember my Dad sitting down and reading. My Mom may even still have his copy. 54 years ago this book and the Native American Rights movement, along with the Vietnam War, legalizing abortion, and W ...more

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