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A review by rossbm
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
4.0
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What's it about?
It's a very chatty and personal account of relations between Native American and European settlers. It focuses on a limited number of themes, and draws connections between the current situation and past events.
What did I think?
This is a good book. It is well written and easy to read. Thomas King has many asides (such as saying that his wife Helen wanted him to mention this and that) - these help with making the book more engaging.
It is good that the book is engaging because it deals with pretty important and heavy stuff. I think that every Canadian should have an appreciation of how harshly and unfairly the government has treated Indigenous people's in the past and how this has contributed to the current issues that we all need to face. My biggest is takeaway is that I personally want to live in a country with a government that keeps it promises, and the Canadian government has not done so most of the time with Indigenous people.
What's it about?
It's a very chatty and personal account of relations between Native American and European settlers. It focuses on a limited number of themes, and draws connections between the current situation and past events.
What did I think?
This is a good book. It is well written and easy to read. Thomas King has many asides (such as saying that his wife Helen wanted him to mention this and that) - these help with making the book more engaging.
It is good that the book is engaging because it deals with pretty important and heavy stuff. I think that every Canadian should have an appreciation of how harshly and unfairly the government has treated Indigenous people's in the past and how this has contributed to the current issues that we all need to face. My biggest is takeaway is that I personally want to live in a country with a government that keeps it promises, and the Canadian government has not done so most of the time with Indigenous people.