Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Thorough winds talk long and deep as "An Indian History of the American West" unfolds. From the early days of meeting the harbingers of their atrocious genocide to the last vestiges riding off into the mountain ranges, the overwhelming sadness and despair is ever present.
Meticulous and at times laborious, accounts and pieces of recollection on the Native Americans, or American Aborigines, truly do not let up. One account after the other and the hope that shines bright in the eyes of the Native Americans glimmers less and less the more the years wear on.
Manifest Destiny, the proclamation of divination handing the lands of America for colonisation, wrought much in the way of hardship, devastation and death. Battles and wages of might and misunderstanding reaping death tolls higher and higher with little to no mercy in its wake.
Bury the mind in sadness
Extremely harrowing to account for, times in reading also fall and stumble due to the delivery. Dry, facts and footnotes in the American history prove wanting in spice and flavour. Thankfully and short out of luck not.
Painting with actual testimonials creates a legalised version of events. Effect of such proving history is the driving force. Tropes of fiction standing aside as the timeline is its own shepherd of attention.
Utterly interesting all the while increasingly depressing. A complete pause to think about the destruction of a peoples and the wiping out of many cultures.
Thursday, 24 April 2008
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