Brandon's Impotent Rage
1st January 2014, 20:00
Any of you guys read this book?
If you haven't, and you're interested in the plight of the American Indian, you definitely need to. It's not exactly light reading (and it's definitely not happy reading), but its gripping as all hell and rings with a cry for justice.
It's basically a history of the American frontier from a native perspective, beginning when Columbus landed in 1492, and through the next few centuries shows the gradual displacement and, eventually, genocide of the American Indian tribes, ending with the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. Everything from the mistreatment of the natives by Spanish conquistadors, King Phillip's War, Andrew Jackson's anti-indian genocide, The Trail of Tears, and Little Big Horn.
And on top of that, its filled with written pieces from various Indian men and women and their histories, and stories from their families of what it was like....before the white man.
If you haven't, and you're interested in the plight of the American Indian, you definitely need to. It's not exactly light reading (and it's definitely not happy reading), but its gripping as all hell and rings with a cry for justice.
It's basically a history of the American frontier from a native perspective, beginning when Columbus landed in 1492, and through the next few centuries shows the gradual displacement and, eventually, genocide of the American Indian tribes, ending with the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. Everything from the mistreatment of the natives by Spanish conquistadors, King Phillip's War, Andrew Jackson's anti-indian genocide, The Trail of Tears, and Little Big Horn.
And on top of that, its filled with written pieces from various Indian men and women and their histories, and stories from their families of what it was like....before the white man.