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The Book: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
ISBN: 0-8050-6669-1
Suggested By: Sissy Vaughn
Where: Home
When: 5-5:45P
Music: None
Company: Alone
Pages: 181-236 (55)
The Lead In: While I don’t doubt the validity or accuracy of the facts presented within the book, I am, at times, irritated by the obvious slant of the book. The white men are evil, except for a few exceptions, which are ignored or stupid. The Indians are all noble and heroic. Not the case. There isn’t a cookie cutter in the real world that punches out people. They come in all different types.
The 411 on the 55: There is an underlying theme I see emerging in the Native-Army relations: the Army did not understand the concept of tribes and tribal relations. The Apache in New Mexico are a perfect example. Several settlers are kidnapped by Natives. So the Army calls in Cochise. He arrives and escapes an attempted kidnapping. In response, the Army blames the Apaches and kills members of Cochise’s family. This sparks a war that only ends with the ultimate destruction of the Apaches as a tribal unit.
Line of the Day: “God made us not as you; we were born like the animals, in the dry grass, not on beds like you. This is why we do as the animals, go about at night and rob and steal. If I had such things as you have, I would not do as I do, for then I would not need to do so.” pg 209
The Fact on the Fiction: In Mexico, a bounty was offered for Apache scalps. Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West focuses on a party of men who profit from this bloody occupation. Wikipedia
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