Reddit reviews The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

Actually... the Northeast tribes were fairly peaceful compared to the west. Now once we go out west and you get to the Sioux. They would fuck your shit up and torture and flay you to death thinking that the way you died was the way you spent the rest of your life in 'Happy Hunting Grounds'.

So in turn the westerners all fully freaked out would lash out against all tribes peaceful or not. Its what would happen to palestine and israel if the international community looked away for a decade. The animosity was so horrific that frontiersman would cut out indian womens lady parts to make tobacco pouches. That is how much hatred they had for the Sioux! I am NOT claiming that Native Americans were hippy tree huggers. That crap is realm of popular myth. What colonists and later US government did in turn to the native tribes was far worse than anything they did to us.

EDIT: spelling, etc.

Source; http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Everything-That-Untold-American/dp/1451654685/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462407668&sr=8-1&keywords=red+cloud

EDIT: If you will Indulge me I just wanted to say that the book on Red Cloud was amazing and I really enjoyed it. I am incredibly impressed at the ability of Red Cloud to choose to bend later in life than sacrifice his people. The PBS series We Shall Remain is excellent as well, but the book on Red Cloud held nothing back.

I will not claim to be an expert in the history of the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

But I have to take some issue with relying on The Heart of Everything That Is for an accurate account.

While the authors may have "done painstaking research", the book is described as "fiery narrative. Which suggests to me it is not a scholarly work.

Here is some criticism of the book from an Indigenous perspective. I have to agree that a book that uses "savages" to describe Indigenous peoples, is showing far too much bias or ignorance to be relied upon when discussing history.