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Jackson did win the Ivy passing title, even though he was plagued by a recurring injury all season and was forced to sit out the final game with a knee injury...
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Dee Brown's Indian history of the American West, is a remarkable combination of style and sense of subject. Fundamental to the book's impact are two aspects of Brown's approach. Unlike many of his white predecessors, he has enough respect for the American Indian as to allow those involved in the losing of the West to speak for themselves to the extent that the white-recorded transcripts from the period allow them to do so. Equally important is the fact that Brown has taken a national perspective on his subject. Although there...
...form and content, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee attempts to break down this historiological dislocation and muting of the Indian people. Each chapter begins with a listing of national and international events that occurred during the time span covered in the chapter. By juxtaposing the events that were taking place outside of the West with those that are covered in the chapters. Brown not only gives one a more precise chronological grasp on the particulars, but also illuminates the historical ironies that stem from America's polyracial composition. Thus, for example, the same government that congratulated itself for passing...
...start of the Civil War, most of the surviving 300,000 American Indians were sandwiched between 30 million Europeans and their descendants. As much as it is the history of the defeat of the remaining free tribes. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is a study of the qualities with which these Indians struggled for the survival of their land, their dream, and ultimately themselves when the odds were 100 to 1 that they wouldn't make it. In part, the courage, skill, intelligence, and dignity which the Indians exhibited in their struggle arose from their understanding of the interdependence...
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee was for weeks the best-selling non-fiction book in America. It is difficult to say whether this is because the country, or at least that segment of the country that still has $10.95 to spend on a book, is at last willing to come to terms with its past, and more importantly, come to terms with the demands of the errors of the past on the energies of the present and future. It may be that the book-buying public, after all of the sex manuals, was prime for a non-fiction book...