Author: Thomas C. Gannon
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍
My Review: I loved this book and how the author uses birding as a way to understand and resolve in his mind the cognitive dissonance of how Indians have been treated in America. Thomas Gannon gives an honest description of how America has been so cognitively dissonant in its treatment of American Indians and nature. Using military and religion, Europeans immigrants conquered nature and Indians using a "Winchester rifle in one hand and a King James Bible in the other".
Description (Book Cover): Thomas C. Gannon’s Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author’s life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon’s traumatic time in an Indian boarding school in South Dakota, his mother’s devastation at racist bullying from coworkers, and the violent erasure colonialism demanded of the people and other animals indigenous to the United States.
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍
My Review: I loved this book and how the author uses birding as a way to understand and resolve in his mind the cognitive dissonance of how Indians have been treated in America. Thomas Gannon gives an honest description of how America has been so cognitively dissonant in its treatment of American Indians and nature. Using military and religion, Europeans immigrants conquered nature and Indians using a "Winchester rifle in one hand and a King James Bible in the other".
Description (Book Cover): Thomas C. Gannon’s Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author’s life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon’s traumatic time in an Indian boarding school in South Dakota, his mother’s devastation at racist bullying from coworkers, and the violent erasure colonialism demanded of the people and other animals indigenous to the United States.
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