I will admit that I am not much for reading. I will also admit after reading the first
chapter in this book that I felt sick to my stomach, literally. That I feared reading
the rest of the book knowing that this really happened and that people could
actually do this to one another. Although the book disgusted me after the first
chapter that I didn't want to read it anymore it also made me not want to put it
down. It could have been the way the writer described everything made it all so
vivid and clear or maybe it was the fact that it was so gruesome and real that I had
to read it. Whatever the truth may be I thought it was a very good book.
Up until this class I hadn't even heard of the Uprising. In my impression
part of the book was the side of the Indians while part of it was the side of the
'white man's' view. It told of how it started, where it began, when it ended and
I feel as if the Indians had been changing their ways throughout the war. In
the beginning they were killing anyone and everyone but, to a point, by the end of
the war they were only killing the white males and were holding the women and
Although I don't think the Indians needed to be hung for their crimes they
should've been arrested and brought into jail. The white men needed to also take
responsibility for their actions. It takes two people to start a fight no matter what it
is about. Yes, it wasn't all of the white men who held back their annuity payment,
but it was those men who insisted that they change their ways.
The book was a well-researched and insightful narrative of the bloody
uprising and the events which preceded it. It is another sad chapter in the history
of the American West . All the shocking events took place during one week in
August of 1862, in response to being tricked and betrayed by broken treaties,
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