Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - please read this book

[G_j]

Today! Then look at the situation at Standing Rock and begin to understand our history as it is unfolding in the present moment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee

[Mendocino]

1. I read it shortly after it

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came out in 1970, when I was about 14. Been a good lefty ever since.

[ghostsinthemachine]

2. Thank you for the reminder

I read it years ago. I've read a couple of books on that subject lately and am thinking I need to revisit this on. Thank you.

[mahannah]

5. Also "Custer Died for Your Sins" and "House Made of Dawn"

[gregcrawford]

6. The obscene treachery...

... to which Original Americans have been subjected since the first White Devils – some of whom were my ancestors – set foot on this land must never be forgotten or forgiven. The U.S. government has not honored a single treaty with ANY Native American tribe.

[cilla4progress]

7. I was fortunate

to work on Indian reservations for 4 years writing wills for tribal members so they could have some control over their lands. I read this and many other books by native authors during that time. I'd had it in my library for years, but hadn't had the courage to read it. Heartbreaking and should be required in every American high school history class.

[Sunny05]

9. Excellent idea to require as h.s. reading. nt

[cilla4progress]

11. I was shocked

At the history I was never taught, and the Native American heroes and heroines I never learned about, many of whom were degraded and LIED about to us in our history books. Red Cloud. Cochise. Santana. Tecumseh. Geronimo. And on and on.

[G_j]

18. Wise leaders who

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simply did what ever they could for the good of their people.

[Mendocino]

20. Tecumseh

I know of quite well. I lived my whole life in NW Ohio growing up less than a half mile from Ft. Meigs, a War of 1812 site. He led the Native forces in that battle/siege. Tecumseh could have very well camped on the very land where my house was. Growing up I did unearth old nails and a belt buckle in my backyard

[niyad]

10. you might also want to read "an indigenous people's history of the united states" by

roxanne dunbar-ortiz. a very difficult read. whatever we think we know about the horrible treatment of the indigenous peoples is miniscule compared to the actuality.

[cilla4progress]

12. Yes, and

Zinn's A Peoples History. Should also be required reading.

[geardaddy]

13. Yes, I've been saying that the PTB want another Wounded Knee.

[geardaddy]

14. I have it, but haven't read it yet.

I will be starting it this weekend.

[RebelOne]

15. I read it many years ago.

[struggle4progress]

17. ... I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

Rue des Martyrs and Bleeding-Heart-Yard,
Senlis, Pisa, and Blindman's Oast,
It is a magic ghost you guard
But I am sick for a newer ghost,
Harrisburg, Spartanburg, Painted Post ...
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

"American Names"
Stephen Vincent Benet

[Mc Mike]

21. Great book. Have you read "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse"?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57585.In_the_Spirit_of_Crazy_Horse

[ismnotwasm]

22. Read it in the 7th grade

it is the most influential book that helped form my views.