2019 A to Z Challenge - "B" 2019 Color Coded Challenge - White
Once Upon a Book Club - May 2018
This book was published in 2018 and what a time to read it - with the Dakota Pipeline protests, North Dakota's controversial voting ID law that prevents Native Americans from voting and the recent confrontation with a tribe elder after an Indigenous Peoples March - to be reminded of America's early history and outright abuse of Native Americans.
Between Earth and Sky is a beautiful telling of an ugly history, that we all need to be reminded of. How the land, traditions and languages were destroyed and/or stolen from the Native Americans in an attempt to assimilate them to the ways of the white man which were representation of progress, the future.
The problem has always been and continues to be that the white man and more often than not, the Christian white man, has always believed his way is the right way, the only way and that there is no room for another's culture, ideas, traditions to be incorporated. If we could all try to be more open minded to another's experiences, beliefs, customs; to accept others and their differences, we could possibly find true peace on this earth.
Quotes: "The words and stories may be different, but the stars [constellations] remained the same."
"'They're indolent...born and bred lazy as sin, They complain because they want everything handed to them without a drop of sweat on their part.'"
"'The white man has always been generous with what he doesn't want.'"
"Growing pains of the burgeoning West. The right of the strong and civilized to conquer the weak."
"'If you ain't white and ain't a man, he assumed you had no sense'"
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