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Winter in the Blood
Winter in the Blood
Author: James Welch
While neither bitter nor angry, it manages anyway to portray a country that has little to show for itself but "greed and stupidity." The values it embraces are finally those available to every American, native or otherwise -- compassion and respect for life and the living. — The story concerns a few days in the life of a 32-year-old man...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140086447
ISBN-10: 0140086447
Publication Date: 3/4/1986
Pages: 176
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3.5 stars, based on 14 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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harmony85 avatar reviewed Winter in the Blood on + 982 more book reviews
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An extraordinary, evocative novel about a young Native American coming to terms with his heritage-and his dreams.
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Excellent depiction of the result of the immoral Indian wars in contemporary Indian Country. What was done to Native Americans (no different from any place Westerners decided that they could 'own' a peoples and their resources) was an outrage, and this book shows its effect. For a fuller picture, read FOOLS CROW by the same author, James Welch, himself a Native American. This book is a predecessor to WINTER IN THE BLOOD; we all know highlights of history like Wounded Knee and Custer's Last Stand (though we don't know about pieces of history from the stealing of Indian lands to using Native Americans for target practice and an early use of 'germ warfare' (giving Native Americans the blankets of those soldiers who had died of smallpox...). Too many Americans don't recognize that 'they were here first'; many don't even realize that there are ANY Native Americans living east of the Mississippi!!!
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For me this book was a two-sided sword. It was a story of a young man troubled by his own past and unsecure future. He is desperately searching for himself but looking in all the wrong places until he listens to an old blind man's wisdom. Once he realizes who he is and how his life is important he admits some respect for himself and his roots. This book was written/released in 1974 and is currently becoming a movie.


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