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"What can the history of the Nez Perce Indians tell us about today? Brian Schofield's "Selling Your Father's Bones" is a heartbreaking account of their last stand against the U.S. Army, which also examines the ideology behind the conquest of the West and its place in American thinking today. If you want to understand the forces that unleashed the credit crunch, start here." -- Chris Hannan, "The Herald" (Scotland), a Best Book of the Year selection
"It is never dull, politically correct, too late or anything less than shaming and shocking to read about the evils done in the name of European Americans to the indigenous peoples of the northwestern United States. But it takes a book such as this to bring it all together and let you begin to sense the scale of the injustice as Native Americans experienced it....Brian Schofield's heart-rending account is interwoven with contemporary scenes from his researches, in a second-hand van, in the hardscrabble ex-lumber towns of twenty-first-century Idaho. A quiet fury burns through his careful prose." -- "The Times" (London)
"Schofield's book, which is admirably ambitious in scope, could well turn out to be a future classic." -- "Geographical" magazine
"A riveting account of one of the darkest and most misunderstood periods of American history. It should be required reading for anyone who believes that greed and big business are forces for good." -- "The Birmingham" (England) "Post"
"Genuinely epic." -- "The Sunday Times" (London)
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An award-winning travel writer recounts the doomed exodus of the Nez Perce tribe, revealing the history of America's expansion.
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- VerlagSimon & Schuster
- Erscheinungsdatum2011
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- ISBN 13 9781416539940
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Part historical narrative, part travelogue, and part environmental plea, Selling Your Father's Bones recounts one of the most astonishing journeys in the history of the American West. The year 1877 bore witness to a broken promise. Joseph, chief of the peaceable Nez Perce band who made their home in Oregon's Wallowa Valley, had long sworn to uphold the dying words of his father: "This country holds your father's body. Never sell the bones of your mother and your father." Yet, as the U.S. government confined the tribe to ever smaller reservations in favor of miners and ranchers in their westward sprawl, the fateful decision of several young Nez Perce warriors to attack the settlers set in motion an exodus from Joseph's ancestral home. For the next eleven weeks, seven hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children traveled 1,700 miles across inhospitable wilderness, engaging the chasing army in six battles and many more skirmishes, as they drove on in search of peace and freedom. Just forty miles from the Canadian border, the tribe survived a calamitous five-day siege until Joseph could no longer bear his people's suffering and surrendered. It is said that when he died, in 1904, the cause was a broken heart. Populated with the heroes and villains of a classic conflict, Selling Your Father's Bones intercuts the Nez Perce's fight for survival with the author's own travels across this very same terrain, the mountains, forests, badlands, and prairies of modern-day Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. The imposing Bitterroot Mountains, the Lolo Pass (then and now among the toughest mountain crossings on the North American continent), and the great Montana buffalo plains retain their majesty. Yet, as Schofield reveals, ecological vandalism, unthinking corporate policies, and dubious political leadership have wrought scarred landscapes, battered communities, and toxic environments whose realities must be borne by the living descendants of both the Nez Perce warriors and the European settlers. As Schofield walks among the people who now occupy these sacred lands, he sees in the values of the Native American West--love for homeland, for ancestry, and for Mother Nature--a route to their, and our, salvation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781416539940
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