Killers of the Flower Moon review - No country for Osage tribe in history of deadly greed
Non-fiction Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann Simon & Schuster Hdbk, 291 pages, €28
In the blood-drenched annals of human history, has any people been more grievously wronged than American Indians? Jews, possibly, but Native Americans would run them a close second: their mistreatment, since Columbus landed, has been atrocious.
This isn't some inane "white people are evil" rant, and I don't necessarily buy that whole Dances with Wolves notion of the noble, pure-of-heart aboriginal. I'm sure if they'd had transatlantic ships and gunpowder first, Native Americans wouldn't have hesitated to colonise Europe.
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