This book! Add this to the pile of books that will be required reading for my children when they get older.
It will join these others:
King Leopold's Ghost
The Shallows - What the Internet is Doing to Your Brain
The Color of Law
Alone Together
I'm probably forgetting some...
I knew nothing about how the American Indians were treated in our nation. It was never mentioned in any of my history. I picked up a couple books about the Trail of Tears from the library and browsed through them before settling on this one. It was a bit dry in parts, but overall did an excellent job of covering the history of the Cherokees and the US government.
The way the US government treated the American Indians is disgraceful. They double-crossed them and lied to them over and over and over again. It is interesting reading history because you start to see people in a different light. We tend to group all the early presidents in a group and think of them as "good". But we are all sinners in need of a Saviour and without Him we are hopelessly lost.
I fell like I need to read a biography of each of our American presidents to get a better picture of their lives. There are so many things I want to read about. A book gives such a better picture then a wikipdia page article.
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