Top products from r/NativeAmericans
We found 4 product mentions on r/NativeAmericans. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
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New book, Its preservable and useful., It is as Wallace Stegner says.Matthiessen's introduction presents a map of the book to start yourIts original Price was more than double my asking price. Good buy.
Show Reddit reviews2. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
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University of Oklahoma Press
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1491 by Charles C. Mann
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiesson
Custer Died For Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr.
Those are the three that I always answer this question with.
To add on to this excellent response: It is not even an entire race (because human is the race), it is how many hundreds of Nations. Those nations predominately targeted in the Shoah/Holocaust were Jews and Romani... those targeted in the many hundreds of American Genocides are how many hundreds of nations from how many hundreds of countries
Yes, you should feel bad, as anyone should looking back on the German Holocaust. You should also look to learn–like exactly what you are doing. But it is very important to understand the scale of the atrocities and the degree to which they are hidden, erased and otherwise shuffled under the rug
What happened and is happening on this continent (Turtle Island, aka North America) is akin to many numerous Holocausts in many ways because of the multiplicity of atrocities that have occurred over how many generations at this point. Further, the degree to which OP you know about the German Holocaust, Jews and Romani, the countries involved and the nations harmed and targeted... what do you know about the nations who suffered under the hands of Americans and Canadians and Mexicans? Or about the countries that were invaded, occupied, settled and colonised? Can you name any country like you can name Germany, Poland and Israel?
We need truth before reconciliation, so please please please explore the Truth behind why "Wasn't it your tribes fighting amongst themselves in a dog eat dog world as it was?" is as wrong as it is. The resources are there, read books like: Unsettling Canada or Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws or American Genocide or many others... Find out about what Indigenous country you live in... or at least which country's territories got stolen, ceded or sold away. Learn about the language and their neighbours and if they spoke and/or speak a sign language (which is akin in every way to an oral language, but there is a concerted effort to erase sign languages so, like, special category). Read the Truth and Reconciliation's report and 94 Recommendations and take to heart why they were made
Take the time to learn.
Take the time to mourn.
Take the time to act.
repeat
Learning is imperative and what you are doing. Learn about the countries, the nations, their languages, their histories. But every single Indigenous nation on Turtle Island has been severely harmed by colonisation and genocide.. so, like when learning about the horrors of the Shoah, take the time to mourn, to digest, to accept what has happened. There is no use denying nor is there use trying to move past it without this step. But the final is most important, take what you learn and do something with it.. even if that something is as simple as passing on the little knowledge you learned to a neighbour or parent