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scrosby's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
leavingsealevel's review
4.0
A history book that reads like a story. A hugely important story that settler Americans should all really know more about. Particularly any of us involved in Occupy or Indigenous solidarity movements in far-away lands. In the second case, because it's the same story of colonization and resistance, only we're the colonizers. In the first, because Occupy owes SO MUCH to movements like AIM, and it seems to me that's not frequently acknowledged.
I learned so much: I have looked at the occupation of Wounded Knee as a symbol of hope for a long time, and [when living in the US] as a reminder that I lived on colonized land. On someone else's land. Still, even with my politics I knew next to nothing about the events immediately prior to Wounded Knee. I knew even less about the larger context of activism that existed before AIM, and continued to exist after.
I learned so much: I have looked at the occupation of Wounded Knee as a symbol of hope for a long time, and [when living in the US] as a reminder that I lived on colonized land. On someone else's land. Still, even with my politics I knew next to nothing about the events immediately prior to Wounded Knee. I knew even less about the larger context of activism that existed before AIM, and continued to exist after.
dominiquefragments's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Absolutely loved reading this and couldn't put it down. This book is so informative and I wish more people knew about it. As the authors mentioned, Native Americans have been made invisible over centuries and to read about events that I never even knew happened was exhilarating and devastating at the same time. I also thought the authors did an incredible job at highlighting why the various occupations and protests failed and why they also succeeded at the same time. I will definitely be researching more books on Native Americans both during modern times and from the distant past.
meglindsay's review
4.0
One of those why-have-I-never-heard-of-this? moments. The story is desperate to tell itself. Fascinating and well-hidden American history.
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