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Reviews
Here is what the critics are saying about Killing the White Man’s
Indian:
“Well written, moving and
stimulating.” —The New York Times
(Read complete NYT review)
“Bordewich has written an honest, courageous book...He
has masterfully articulated the questions that Indians, the federal government
and the American people as a whole must face in regard to Indian identity and
Indian sovereignty in the 21st century.” —The Washington Post
“A revolution is underway in
Indian Country (Bordewich suggests)...a revolution little noticed by the
national media or general public...Native Americans have begun to shape their
own destinies...They are “killing the white man’s Indian,” disproving
the myths and stereotypes that have virtually always colored European-derived
peoples’ thinking about natives of the New World. The book is well written....
the story he has to tell is a complicated one.” —The Boston Globe
“It isn’t possible in a few
paragraphs to do justice to Fergus M. Bordewich’s important book ... (He is)
evenhanded and thorough” —Arizona Daily Star
“full of insights and telling
anecdotes” —Tulsa Oklahoma World
“(Bordewich’s) vibrant,
compelling, diversified portrait of contemporary Native Americans dispels
whites’ lingering stereotypes of Indians either as permanent victims or as
morally superior beings living in primeval, unchanging communion with nature.” —Publishers Weekly
“An incisive look at troubles
simmering in the Indian nations that... is full of insights and telling
anecedotes. The result is a more evenhanded... book than Peter Matthiesen’s
’Indian Country’, alongside which this worthy volume should be shelved.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A stunning and
well-documented insight into the rich mosaic that (Bordewich) calls ’the
revolution underway in Indian Country’ in the 1990s....This is a hopeful book.
Bordewich believes that when we strip away the historical myths, we can see the
future of the native American as ’irrevocably intertwined with that of other
Americans.’” —St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
“An excellent introduction for
anyone who wishes to understand the historical context and contemporary
signifigance of the politics of ’Indian Country.’ “ —Richard Slotkin,
Professor, Wesleyan University, author of Gunfighter Nation
“Killing the White Man’s
Indian could become as powerful in shaping public perceptions of and
attitudes toward American Indians as did Vine Deloria’s Custer Died for
Your Sins and Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee a
generation ago. Bordewich unflinchingly exposes realities that most people,
including writers and historiansm ignore or gloss over with qualified language.
There is much here to anger Indians and whites alike and to trouble everyone.
But here too, bared with extraordinary clarity, are the issues with which all
Indians and the American Society at large must deal as we approach a new
century.” —Robert M. Utley, Author of The Lance and the Sword: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
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