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Someday, My Son, None of This Will Be Yours: The Real American Indian Movement in a White Man's World (Nation Books)
Someday My Son None of This Will Be Yours The Real American Indian Movement in a White Man's World - Nation Books Author:David Seals David Seals has been a witness to and participant in many of the historic confrontations between the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the FBI. — In Someday, My Son, None of This Will Be Yours, Seals confronts the negative imagery and publicity that surround AIM. Combining spellbinding storytelling, historical documentation and personal narrat... more »ive, we travel with Seals across an American landscape colored by betrayal, deception and tragedy. Seals? reminds us of the larceny of the United States Government, the horror of the Red Lake Reservation School Massacre, the battle at Wounded Knee, the hypocrisy of Mount Rushmore, eradication of Native languages, and the Christianization of the Sundances and ceremonies at pow-wows and carnivals. Seals re-visits the 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the subsequent imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, and his ongoing involvement in Peltier?s long legal struggle.
This book is Seals' moving and at times hilarious account of the courageous people of all the tribes and nationalities who continue to work selflessly and without personal reward for the restoration of the great Buffalo Nations of the American West.« less