to what extent, if at all, the author addresses the complications of the Civil War on the Indian Territory and the involvement of the so-called five civilized tribes (and the other, less well known tribes who shared or bordered their territory). I am reading a book of a Indian history and I am just at the point now that the author is describing the way this war fucked with a group of people who had already been fucked about as much as one can imagine. But there are some interesting details to the matter -- not least is the fact that some Cherokee and other "wealthy" tribesman held black slaves, though this apparently was not the prime reason for their siding with the Confederacy. The politics are kind of interesting. From what I understand the tribes, for the most part, didn't have a choice as the Union was offering them no protection and their territories were adjacent to the South.
It's a facet of history that seems completely ignored, to me, but I suppose in the long line of shitty circumstances to befall the red man, this ranks as just another footnote. Nice review, by the way.
It's a facet of history that seems completely ignored, to me, but I suppose in the long line of shitty circumstances to befall the red man, this ranks as just another footnote. Nice review, by the way.
The Civil War by Shelby Foote.
28/10/2010 08:25:39 PM
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Thank you for the review.
28/10/2010 08:37:38 PM
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Greg bought it for me a few years ago for my birthday.
28/10/2010 10:05:25 PM
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Well, Ken Burns did little than cannibalize Foote's trilogy and dumb it down for stupid people.
28/10/2010 10:15:26 PM
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I was also thinking of dumping this review onto my Facebook wall just for shits and giggles.
28/10/2010 10:18:48 PM
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I am curious
30/10/2010 03:38:56 AM
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