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The Mammoth Book Of Native Americans edited
by Jon E. Lewis check out website: www.constablerobinson.com
We do occasionally steer a recommendation towards particular non-fiction books if they are to help writers with some area of research or provide other such insights. This book tends to fall under these two categories as it shows how the white immigrants to America cheated, connived and murdered to take the land from the Native Americans. Resistance really was futile in a way that would have made the Borg blush with the ways it was done.
It is hardly a chapter of American history that the US people should feel proud about and certainly nothing to do with liberty or rights of the individual. The history of the decline of the Native Americans is a lesson to be learnt from as not only a demonstration of extreme prejudice from some individuals but it has invariably been used as a metaphor in SF on occasion. If you are choosing to take this route, then seeing a real life example in a book such as this should be in your collection. You might not look at your fellow man with quite the same eye again afterwards let alone in the things you write but it will invariably add significant dimension to your work if you write. As to you non-writers, should you want to read this book? Very probably. This warts and all treatment is a sharp contrast to the media depiction of the old American West that still needs to be laid to rest. I came away from this book feeling very angry. Nothing can change the past but it should also inform sufficiently so nothing like this ever happens again no matter the world you live on. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - March 2004
Chasing Science by Frederick Pohl Wolves Of The Calla by Stephen King and illustrated by Bernie Wrighton The Mammoth Book Of Native Americans edited by Jon E. Lewis Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin Red Star Rising: More Chronicles Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Three Hearts And Three Lions by Poul Anderson Downward To The Earth by Robert Silverberg Buffy: Seven Crows by John Vornholt The Dragon Of Despair by Jane Lindsjold Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove Barry Trotter And The Unnecessary Sequel by Michael Gerber Fitcher’s Brides by Gregory Frost Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror 2003 The Moon’s Shadow by Catherine Asaro Which Way To The Future: Selected Essays From Analog by Stanley Schmidt
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There's
a couple nice things about seeing a particular publisher's catalogue.
You can anticipate what's coming up and occasionally choose books
that might not appear to be anything to do with our remit. 
It
is a demonstration of how poor a treatment man can give to man ranging
from biological warfare, generously handing out blankets contaminated
with smallpox, to outright near-genocide with tribe removals to
reservations, despite contractual promises. 
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