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particularkev's review
4.0
John Sugden's biography of the great Shawnee chief Tecumseh is an authoritative investigation of his life and legend. Sugden investigates the legend and highlights what he understands to be the facts, based on painful investigation of the known sources relating to Tecumseh. This he successfully does, while providing the reader with an understanding of Tecumseh the man, alongside Tecumseh and his mission.
For me the book also provides an insight into the machinations of early American government, expansion and imperialist ambition. As has usually been the case with native peoples, the Shawnee nation (and other native American nations) was exploited and treated extremely poorly by the young American nation.
I would recommend this book to those living in the United States as a very helpful book for providing an insight into how poorly native Americans were treated in the early years of the independent United States of America, and how the native peoples of that country were exploited and dispossessed of their country in such an unfeeling manner. Perhaps there are lessons to be learnt for today and forgiveness to be sought for yesterday, as there is in my own country's treatment of its indigenous peoples.
For me the book also provides an insight into the machinations of early American government, expansion and imperialist ambition. As has usually been the case with native peoples, the Shawnee nation (and other native American nations) was exploited and treated extremely poorly by the young American nation.
I would recommend this book to those living in the United States as a very helpful book for providing an insight into how poorly native Americans were treated in the early years of the independent United States of America, and how the native peoples of that country were exploited and dispossessed of their country in such an unfeeling manner. Perhaps there are lessons to be learnt for today and forgiveness to be sought for yesterday, as there is in my own country's treatment of its indigenous peoples.
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