Reading "The Barbarous Years" by Baylin about the European colonization of North America

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It's a good book so far. It has a conservative (with a small "c&quot perspective, but it's very well-sourced and very interesting. Well worth the read IMO. Thanksgiving is not as simple as the traditional or revisionist histories want to make it...

[bemildred]

1. If you like that, another suggestion:

http://www.amazon.com/Fathers-Crows-Dreams-William-Vollmann/dp/014016717X

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2. And another suggestion, written during the waning days of the Indian wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Century_of_Dishonor

[bemildred]

3. Yes. It is not a new discussion, and Ms Jackson is a worthy contributor.

I have tended of late to be looking a century or three before that, but the story goes right up to 1950 and beyond.

We have always been very vigorous in suppressing the legal rights of our native american citizens, for reasons that seem obvious to me but are rarely mentioned in public, i.e. the danger that they might sue to regain their stolen property.

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4. A lot of those "150 year leases" are coming up soon

Expect a new round of suppressions...