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workinclasszero

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20. Read that book driving back from SD after visiting the Crazy Horse monument site

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sat Oct 20, 2018, 02:56 PM

Oct 2018

Forty some years later, the monument is still under construction, wow. We actually bought the book there as well.

Dad was driving I was 14 or so, the navigator on the trip with a big Rand-McNally road atlas at hand.

Totally blew my mind and changed my thinking forever as well. It had the same effect on my older sister.

This country has committed some horrendously evil acts, genocide against the Native Americans and slavery being the worst.

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. That book changed how I looked at life itself. [View all] shockey80 Oct 2018 OP

Absolutely! Every American should read it!! G_j Oct 2018 #1

That book changed my ellie Oct 2018 #2

That book was world changing MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #3

Fabulous! cilla4progress Oct 2018 #4

Two of my favorite books of all time. Still have bury my heart and Zinn on iPad. notdarkyet Oct 2018 #9

I think I got up to page 250 or so..couldn't read any more.. Stuart G Oct 2018 #5

That was the chapter where I lost it MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #7

And documented in government records. notdarkyet Oct 2018 #10

Ahhhh, Stuart G.- Twice in the same week the subject of the Sand Creek Massacre Totally Tunsie Oct 2018 #16

I read it at almost the same age. It opened my eyes as well. dameatball Oct 2018 #6

Both the book and the film Mendocino Oct 2018 #8

Top 5 favorite movie Bob Loblaw Oct 2018 #21

Truth cilla4progress Oct 2018 #11

No Metal of Honor for massacre spike jones Oct 2018 #12

On a trip out west some years ago had to go to the site. cachukis Oct 2018 #13

I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heat at Wounded Knee. mobeau69 Oct 2018 #14

Read it when it came out, and it was very eye-opening. SeattleVet Oct 2018 #15

" I will fight no more forever" shockey80 Oct 2018 #17

Wasn't Custer at the Sand Creek massacre? shockey80 Oct 2018 #18

That was Chivington. IIRC Custer was at the siege of Petersburg when Sand Creek occurred. Marengo Oct 2018 #30

Sand Creek Massacre Witness Accounts spike jones Oct 2018 #19

Read that book driving back from SD after visiting the Crazy Horse monument site workinclasszero Oct 2018 #20

Thank you, shockey80 Martin Eden Oct 2018 #22

Agreed.. what we did to Native Americans was atrocious. lancelyons Oct 2018 #23

Thank you. ghostsinthemachine Oct 2018 #24

Re: Native Americans, Water Protectors - please consider this, pledge to boycott Nestle ifihad2 Oct 2018 #25

Done and sent out. Duppers Oct 2018 #28

thanks, Dupper ifihad2 Oct 2018 #31

Omg. And that's not off-topic. Duppers Oct 2018 #32

I agree Ohiogal Oct 2018 #26

Black Elk Speaks DownriverDem Oct 2018 #27

I read Black Elk and Wounded Knee. it started OregonBlue Oct 2018 #33

The Right Is So Tone Deaf colsohlibgal Oct 2018 #29