Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

This was an easy to read book that would play off well as fiction. Yes, it's from the viewpoint of the Native Americans, and was probably revolutionary at the time it was published (1970). But today I think the Native American genocide is historically accepted and so I had to read the book from the perspective of a history. In that context, there are 2 major faults. 1) There is very little historical or sociological context about the United States society these actions were taken in. Not only is there no objective perspective of the "white man" but there's no discussion of socio-economic or historic forces driving the actions of the representatives of the US govt. It's hard to learn anything about events being presented in a vacuum. 2) Even if I agree that a one-sided history was needed to balance the numerous biased histories from the other side, there was still very little context from the Native American perspective. It's basically a summary of events based on big leaders, with minimal cultural or sociological context of the Native American societies being examined. This is less new insight than it is a horror novel - written to disturb and anger rather than educate and examine. Recommendation - there are probably better books that cover these topics that may better help educate, and hopefully therefore prevent future such occurances.