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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Gaijinmama
Sep 11, 2009 rated it it was amazing
This book is devastating, relentless, and depressing. It should be required reading for all U.S. citizens. High school history classes really should teach kids just exactly how our country expanded west. As an American of European descent, I am thoroughly disgusted. Invasion and destroying other people's cultures is bad enough, but we did even worse than take the Indians' land and systematically destroy so many of their cultures. Read on.
And yes, it is"cultures", plural. Most white people never
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Chrissie
Dec 05, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Audiobook was available at Downpour for only USD5.95. Excellent narration by Grover Gardner.

DEVASTATING. Very difficult reading. Dense. I am very glad it was written and that I have read it. The language used is perfect. I don't know how to properly convey to what extent this book upset me. Everyone should read it. Maybe you think you know what has happened to Native Americans, but you do not know the half of it. In 30 years, 1860-1890, the people were destroyed, and along with them fauna, flora
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Barbara
Oct 17, 2010 marked it as to-read
I started reading this book many, many years ago, and found it so disturbing that I just could not continue reading it. I do remember that it was so well-written and so important, and I want to give it another try. I'm going through a "time to reread" period -- wanting to reread books that I read a long time ago, or books that I started a long time ago but never finished. It's a tough thing to do, because there are so many great books from the past, but there are also so many new books to read, ...more
Sue
Jul 19, 2010 rated it it was amazing
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Jul 23, 2011 rated it it was ok
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