![]() "The judges recognized The Earth Is Weeping as an instant classic of military history. If you’re at all interested in the Indian Wars, this scrupulous and even-handed account is essential reading. This is a story of survival, one that unfolds under the shadow of a predetermined tragedy. government-that made sense given the landscape of power. As an example, inter-tribe rivalries led to strategic decisions-like siding with the U.S. In fact, especially with the Native Americans, it was much more complicated than that. Put very simply, the Indians weren’t all good and the white people weren’t all bad. While Dee Brown’s book greatly informed our modern view of the conflict between Native Americans and the United States government, it didn’t get everything right. Newsday "Great Books of 2016 that Deserve More Buzz"įinalist, Western Writers of America Spur Award 2016ĪN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF NOVEMBER 2016: Why write a book about the Indian Wars when we already have Dee Brown’s seminal 1970 account Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee? It turns out there’s a very good reason. ![]() ![]() Seattle Times Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2016 Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten History Books of 2016 Winner, Premio HisLibris (Best Historical Nonfiction Title), Spain 2018 Winner, Caroline Bancroft Prize in Western History 2016 Winner, Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History 2016 ![]()
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