mnatale100's review against another edition
dark
informative
sad
slow-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Deportation, Colonisation, and Genocide
Moderate: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Death of parent, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence
Minor: War, Alcohol, Slavery, Addiction, and Alcoholism
thereadingbel's review against another edition
4.0
Very informative history about the Cherokee Native American tribe and its adaptation in the Christian ways of what they deem normal. Christians viewed Native Americans as savages and they set to go into Native American communities and teach them the proper way as what White people do and behave. The cruelty and the ethnic cleansing we did to the Cherokee people is unconscionable. We stole everything from them especial there ancestral lands.
Chronicling the history of U.S.-Native American Relations from the Colonial Period to the time of the Trail of Tears, it lays out the foundations of policy toward Native Americans, and ultimately stakes the case perpetuated by the Government for the removal of the tribes, after the failure of the 'Civilization' program.
I constantly hear people say this is not who we are when we are doing bad things to groups of people. Let's have an honest discussion that is exactly who we are as a Nation we have stole land, cleansed Native populations ect ect. We are not great and we never will be the harms we have done is not at all be learned because we keep repeating with a different groups of people. Right now it is children in cages.
Chronicling the history of U.S.-Native American Relations from the Colonial Period to the time of the Trail of Tears, it lays out the foundations of policy toward Native Americans, and ultimately stakes the case perpetuated by the Government for the removal of the tribes, after the failure of the 'Civilization' program.
I constantly hear people say this is not who we are when we are doing bad things to groups of people. Let's have an honest discussion that is exactly who we are as a Nation we have stole land, cleansed Native populations ect ect. We are not great and we never will be the harms we have done is not at all be learned because we keep repeating with a different groups of people. Right now it is children in cages.
bridgett's review
3.0
This is not a long, comprehensive book but it is a good starting point and is well sourced.
It begins with a brief overview of pre-colonial history and then moves into the treaties of the late 1700s and early 1800s. It gets more detailed as it discusses the lead up to Removal. Then it follows Trail of Tears with its many detachments and the political upheaval of trying to forge a government in the West made up of Old Settlers, Treaty Party, and Nationalists. The Civil War and beyond are only briefly touched on and it ends with a few sentences discussing allotment and then the recreation of the Cherokee Nation government in the 1970s.
I do recommend it as there’s plenty of good information without committing to a huge tome of a book. I highlighted a bunch of new-to-me details that I want to dig into more elsewhere.
It begins with a brief overview of pre-colonial history and then moves into the treaties of the late 1700s and early 1800s. It gets more detailed as it discusses the lead up to Removal. Then it follows Trail of Tears with its many detachments and the political upheaval of trying to forge a government in the West made up of Old Settlers, Treaty Party, and Nationalists. The Civil War and beyond are only briefly touched on and it ends with a few sentences discussing allotment and then the recreation of the Cherokee Nation government in the 1970s.
I do recommend it as there’s plenty of good information without committing to a huge tome of a book. I highlighted a bunch of new-to-me details that I want to dig into more elsewhere.
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