The story of colonization, up to and including the present day, as King demonstrates to great effect, is essentially a continuing tale of mass murder (inside and outside the artifice of war), greed, dispossessing violence, deceit, duplicity, corruption, tragedy, mistreatment, willful indifference, cold-hearted theft, damning contempt, and dehumanization, to name just a few of its pejorative aspects. King’s narrative is beautifully written, intelligent, critical, finely detailed, and historically solid, wrapped in personal, personable, and at times ironically humorous presentation. NAIS 1:1 SPRING 2014 Reviews 113 MAGGIE WALTER The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King University of Minnesota Press, 2013 THIS BOOK PRESENTS THE NARRATIVE of Anglo-French (but particularly Anglo) colonization, historic and contemporary, of the North American continent. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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