A truly wonderful book depicting the murder of native americans by the U.S. government. Cozzens, a veteran Civil War historian, turns his attentions to America's bloody twilight wars against Native Americans between 1865 and 1890. However, it's hard not to dismiss the numerous atrocities and assassinations of Indian leaders perpetuated on the Army's watch. Army." Well sourced, incredibly well written, and engaging I highly reccomend this book to anyone seeking to learn more about the American west or the history of western American Indians and the US government's relationship with them. Here, Team Indian does good and bad, and Team White does good and bad, each according to its own internal dictates of morality and external dictates of practicality and need. Cozzens begins his narrative with the 1866 resistance movement led by Red Cloud. Selected Works. PaperBack by Peter Cozzens. It's truly tragic and another shameful chapter of manifest destiny. The reason for the less than perfect score was the perspective of the author which seemed to be one that gave the ultimate responsibility for the bloodbath that took place in the country to bad policy, incompetent. My familiarity was with names of individuals and battles without much continuity. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away, they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do—fight while they can. A Smithsonian Top History Book of 2016 A Times (UK) Book of the Year This is incredibly unbiased and a fascinating read. The nefarious role of white miners, gun and whiskey dealers, real estate speculators, and corrupt agents is given plenty of coverage. There were certainly characteristics of the book that compelled me to rate what might otherwise have received 5 stars, this lower rating. this book starts out with a statement from the author that suggests that the book Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee has been the only substantial book about Indian history for many years. The soldiers, Crook, Miles, Sherman and Sheridan are all accorded their roles in the saga. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. So why this book? by Knopf. It received the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History, the Caroline Bancroft Prize in Western History, and--in translation--the 2018 HisLibris Award (Spain) for the best non-fiction work of history. No one ever mentions " genocide ", but it truly was. It's to counter the what he calls one-sided narrative since 1970 that Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ushered in- the Army was hell bent on genocide of Indians. The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens book review. In sobering detail, Peter Cozzens has chronicled this dark chapter in our history. But I learned a lot. The current narrative of the Indian Wars is one where evil whites come and take the land from helpless Indians. by Atlantic Books, Published November 1st 2017 I'm familiar with the Civil War battle accounts by the author and did not know of his multi-volume series on the Indian Wars. His book The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2016. Told primarily from the perspective of the various tribes and the U.S. militar, Incredibly detailed, always fascinating, and utterly gripping account of the various Indian wars throughout the American west in the last half of the nineteenth century. Considering the scope of this book the accomplishment is remarkable as it is by no means cursory or abbreviated in its treatment of any area of review. And in today's headlines in the Dakotas we are walking the same talk with the DAPL. I'm sure each conflict alone could be the subject of a very interesting history book, but we get the overall history in an organized fashion focusing on different regions in the West in turn. --Victor Davis Hanson, author of Carnage and Culture "A comprehensive … The eye and the mind strain to examine too directly and too long this repetitive chronicle of avarice and deception, bloodshed and misery. His The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West was published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2016. Suppose a race superior to mine were to land upon the shores of this great continent, trade or cheat us out of our land foot by foot, gradually encroach upon our domain until we were finally driven, a degraded, demoralized band into a small corner of the continent, where to live at all it was necessary to steal, perhaps to do worse? Along the way, he overturns much of the conventional wisdom that has crept into our understanding of this conflict in a manner that is both engaging and discerning. Published October 25th 2016 The tide turned and now most people felt the Indians were treated horribly. Considering what I have seen in Cozzens' other books, t. The current narrative of the Indian Wars is one where evil whites come and take the land from helpless Indians. So much miscommunication and then deceit in our dealings with each other. A brilliant book! Basically from the end of the Civil War to Wounded Knee (25 years) the Indian way of life was destroyed in a generation. 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