Native American History

PeterGage

se9addick said:

Thanks for the book recommendations guys. I’ve tried to learn about Native American history when visiting friends in Arizona a couple of times and again at the museum in DC. I’ve always found it pretty inaccessible to reading one or two of these books should be a better starting point.

The starting point is : "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown

PeterGage

KHA said:

PeterGage said:

Thanks for posting. I really enjoyed the film and am looking forward to the sequal. 

Peter, I found this book very interesting. In case you haven't read it: Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation eBook : Ehle, John: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Thanks @KHA, I have read it. The Cherokee were considered by the American government to be one of the 5 "civilised tribes" for embracing the concept of the American way of live: the first tribe to have an written language and the first to have a written newspaper. But did not stop the government from removing them from their  land to present day Oklahoma to allow white pioneers to settle on their homeland territory: so sad 

se9addick

PeterGage said:

se9addick said:

Thanks for the book recommendations guys. I’ve tried to learn about Native American history when visiting friends in Arizona a couple of times and again at the museum in DC. I’ve always found it pretty inaccessible to reading one or two of these books should be a better starting point.

The starting point is : "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown

Done! Thank you so much! 

Oakster2

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

May be of interest to some.  Wednesday's Mirror featured the story behind Costner's Western movie Horizon: An American Saga. 

It seems the film series itself has a few problems

The first movie Costner has directed since Open Range in 2003 - another Western saga & an excellent film. All shot on our local First Nation territory just to the East of us (we are in Canmore, Alberta) - we are definitely the setting for many of these movies including The Revenant, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Unforgiven & Brokeback Mountain....never really thought I'd end up living somewhere like this with so much hidden history