Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor by Joe Starita

2 reviews

lvfl's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.75

Fascinating woman. The writing is occasionally repetitive. I would have liked more complexity and acknowledgement of the tensions among her identification as Omaha, commitment to her people, and her pro-assimilation stance. The fact that traditionalist Omaha seemed opposed to her sometimes is mentioned but never really explored. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation

henrismum's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

Non-fiction
Audiobook (All of my entries on The Story Graph are audiobooks.)
Why I added this book to my TBR pile: I saw this on Chirp and put it on my list.
Will I read more by this author / about this subject? Probably Not Maybe Definitely Some parts of this book were very difficult to hear. I don't want to hide from history, but it's challenging to know these evils and live in this world. The up side of the story was Susan's wonderful accomplishments.
The narrator was Carrington MacDuffie. A fair reading; no complaints about MacDuffie.
Source: LA Library

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Genocide, Racism, Medical content, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Classism