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English
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The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History
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Albany
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State University of New York Press
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"In the first one-third of this book, this novelist will try to lay out for you the story of the massacre and rape, along with the historical context of that event. To this end, I have interpreted, selected and arranged the results of research by people who are historians, anthropologists, and so forth. The remaining two-thirds of the book will seek to understand how this story got away from "us" (I mean U.S. citizens), and what attempts are now being made to reclaim it as a grassroots, local level. I will ask, finally, whether those attempts do in fact have the potential to help us understand who we are, where we have been, and how we might avoid repeating our mistakes." [Author]