The Genocide of Native Americans

[OneBrickOneVoice]

I was wondering if anyone here had any reccomendations on the Native-American genocide by whites in the US. Preferably some reading which highlights American atrocities.

[Severian]

"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" is a classic book on the subject, (also on the history of Native American resistance.)

One Marxist writer who dealt with the conquest of the Native Americans was George Novack:
Part I (http://marxists.org/archive/novack/1949/01/indians.htm)
Part II (http://marxists.org/archive/novack/1949/04/indians.htm)

[coda]

yeah, Wounded Knee is the classic.

But also informative is: In a Barren Land,The American Indian Quest for Cultural Survival 1677- Present by Paula Mitchell Marks

and any book on the Indian Wars such as The American Indian Wars by John Tebbel and Keith Jennison

[Martin Blank]

Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCusters-Fall-Native-American-Story%2Fdp%2F0452010950&ei=kz0jRpyyKYGajgG0zNmdBw&usg=__R4xvX2U02uw4tykFqXTmo0qv7f4=&sig2=e2NcwnwzPV5zWEf_bQdtLQ)

This is a great little book with interviews of Lakota and Dakota survivors of the "Battle of Little Big Horn". My spouse's great-great grandmother is in there (which is why we bought it initially).

Miles

[Janus]

Good book recommendations here:

Native American history resources (http://www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/history.html)

[which doctor]

I suggest Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me). I've read it before and although it may be a bit brief on such topics, it is a very good introduction to what really happened in US history and how it is still being covered up. A good companion to books about Native American genocide is 1491 by Charles Mann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Colum bus). It shows you all the culture that was lost with the genocide of indigenous americans.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

thanks for the reccomendations comrades, has anyone read "A People's History of the United States" By Howard Zinn? Does it contain stuff on the genocide? Because I've been curious about that book

[Janus]

Yes, it has an entire chapter dedicated to it though there's more analysis interspersed throughout the book.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

oh okay thank you

[Pawn Power]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16, 2007 08:22 pm
I suggest Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me). I've read it before and although it may be a bit brief on such topics, it is a very good introduction to what really happened in US history and how it is still being covered up.
With that, of course is Zinn's The People's History of the United States, which covers these issues in the earlier chapters from a Native American perspective.

[Prairie Fire]

" Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools" by Ward Churchill