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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King

May 27, 2021 by narfna 4 Comments

Can’t recommend this one highly enough. A lot of books are required reading (or should be) for subject matter alone, but this book has the one-two punch of being about something educational and important that everyone living in a colonized country that used to belong to native peoples should read, and also being entertaining and extremely well-written. I finished the introduction and said out loud (to my cat), “I already love this.” Or maybe it was a Goodreads status update. Either is likely. It’s been […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Canadian, narfna, Native American, native history, non fiction, The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King

narfna's CBR13 Review No:46 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Canadian, narfna, Native American, native history, non fiction, The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King ·
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The issue has always been land

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

August 9, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Thomas King is a dual American-Canadian citizen of mixed heritage (Wikipedia lists Cherokee, German and Greek backgrounds), and he identifies strongly with his Cherokee heritage.  He is also quite the storyteller, in the best possible way. King starts his “account” of North American history by refusing to label it as a history- noting, in fact that all histories are “stories we tell about the past”.  He provides a sweeping overview of Indian-White relations in the US and Canada, in more or less chronological (though expressly […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Own voices, The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King

Wanderlustful's CBR11 Review No:34 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, Own voices, The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King ·
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