Submitted by electricdresses t3_zcoh0n in history
carlitobradlin t1_iyycrt9 wrote
Empire if the Summer Moon may shed some light on interactions between many different tribes and white settlers and military.
“Quahadis were the hardest, fiercest, least yielding component of a tribe that had long had the reputation as the most violent and warlike on the continent; if they ran low on water, they were known to drink the contents of a dead horse’s stomach, something even the toughest Texas Ranger would not do.”
xanthidium t1_iyyz3bb wrote
Empire of the Summer Moon, while a good secondary source in that it compiles many other sources, is a very problematic book and not a reliable source for the Indigenous point of view on any aspect of American history.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianCountry/comments/wfqce0/empire_of_the_summer_moon/
https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/boneheaded-errors-ruin-nyt-bestseller-about-comanche-leader
Aimless_Wonderer t1_iz1w8ga wrote
Thanks, the discussion in that reddit thread is very interesting
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Not_just_bikes t1_iz27z2e wrote
Neither one of those sound at all in any way objective
Sounds like they just didn’t like the way Native American tribes were shown rather than having actual factual errors to point out
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