It’s an older book, but I just finished it. I actually didn’t have an interest at the moment to read it but it was in a free Little Library in our neighborhood, so I picked it up. If you want to learn a ton of history and give a lot of insight into what’s happening today, not in a good way, honestly…I highly recommend this book.
“I heard him call to the people not to be afraid, that the soldiers would not hurt them; then the troops opened fire from two sides of the camp.”
by ButtScratchies
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That book hits different when you realize how much of this stuff just got glossed over in school history classes. The Little Library finds are always the best ones too – sometimes you stumble across something that completely changes your perspective
You want some more interesting educational books on Native Americans & the Native American experience:
Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr.
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen
We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope by Steven Charleston
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff
And more fiction recs that are as insightful as they are entertaining:
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Tilly and the Crazy Eights by Monique Gray Smith
Future Home of the Living God: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
Old School Indian: A Novel by Aaron John Curtis