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clairebartholomew549's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
This book is brutal, gory, and completely depressing. It chronicles the aggressive settlement of native lands by white people, the political violence the tribes enacted in response and also sua sponte, and the slow vanishing of native culture. It's compulsively readable - Gwynne goes back and forth between decades, smartly telling history through the lens of different actors - and incredibly informative. This is a period of U.S. history that I don't know much about (which is obviously intentional by the education system) and it was all very interesting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cannibalism
Minor: Addiction
thecirclek's review against another edition
challenging
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medium-paced
4.0
A detailed look at the decimation of the Native American population and lands in the 1800s.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture