Bury my heart at wounded knee

[No pasarán]

just rereading this for the second time, what are others thoughts on this book?

[MarxSchmarx]

I thought the historiography was pretty solid, and the author's descriptions of the events in terms of a personalized narrative was rather creative.

HOWEVER, I had a lot problems with the books organization and thesis. First off, the moralizing got old after about page 50. ALso what bothered me was that it neglected a lot of the kidnappings and raids conducted by native people on each other, as well as colonizer settlements; treaties were violated on both sides. And it presented Canada as some benevolent sanctuary, I suppose this was before all the stuff about the aboriginal schools came out. it's not like these justify the genocide, but rather the book rang a little hollow and self-serving.

[x359594]

I haven't read it in years, but as I recall Brown was not a professional historian but rather a librarian who uncovered a collection of narratives and verbatim notes of treaty meetings, etc.

An earlier book on the same subject is The Long Death (1964) by Ralph Andrist, and the ancestor of both books is A Century of Dishonor (1917) by Helen Hunt Jackson.

The Jackson book is the master narrative for later accounts of the "winning of the West."