6/1/2023 0 Comments Empire summer moon book![]() ![]() ![]() I'm currently in a section where our boy is explaining how Comanche loved to torture because they didn't have agriculture or technological advances, so they were 4-6 thousand years behind European development in terms of morality, development, and enlightenment ("they had no da Vinci"). So the native peoples aren't humans? Oof. ![]() ![]() Then there's this gem about the first whites moving into the native-controlled regions that would become Texas: "It was in Texas where human settlement first arrived at the edges of the Great Plains." Yikes, man. (Although I was reluctant to give it a pass for that Helen Rountree was writing in the 80s and 90s about the Powhatan and managed to be incredibly native-centric and respectful in her language.) I was shocked when I saw the book had come out in 2010. I assumed it was maybe an older work with less thoughtful diction. He repeatedly uses "savages" and "barbarians" to describe the proto-Comanche. I liked Rebel Yell well enough so I thought it would be a good introduction to the Comanche, a tribe I know very little about.Īt first, I was distracted by the language being more like something I would read in a mid-20th century textbook than a modern piece of scholarship. So what the hell- am I going crazy? I've been reading a lot about the Sioux wars, trying to catch up on my Plains tribe history in general this summer and I saw Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. ![]()
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