I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee recently for the first time.

>>9907876
This is probably the only book I ever had to put down because it was too depressing. The repetitiveness of the American government wanting land, not being able to possess it legally, signing some bullshit treaty, provoking Native Americans into a fight so they could break the treaty, killing them and resettling the women and children into a shithole over and over again just exhausted me. They literally just did that over and over again for over a century.

If you owned land and the American government wanted it in the 1800's it was as good as a death sentence a lot of the time.

>>9907894
My experience was really similar, I kept having to put it down after a chapter or a passage. In the end the repetition of the stories really felt like a deliberate choice from the author trying to hammer home the chiefs' and peoples' point of view.