Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
Book • 2012
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Discussion of Indian boarding schools, which led to the deaths of countless indigenous children. There is also a quotation from a Spanish settler who witnessed someone take a baby from their mother and smash their head against a rock.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Discussion of indigenous beliefs about hair and how traumatic it was for Indian boarding school staff to cut off children's hair
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Settlers commonly punished natives by cutting off their hands
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is a minority misrepresented?
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Is there gun violence?
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Mostly discussed in the context of war, but there's also passing mention of a school shooting
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Does a major character die?
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Does a parent die?
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Is there hate speech?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Is someone restrained?
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Historical events where restraint occurred are discussed
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is there addiction?
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Does a family member die?
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Does someone cheat?
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Does someone die?
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The author briefly mentions how he was bullied as a kid, close to the end of the book
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Passing mention of diabetes as an issue among indigenous people
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Discussion of indigenous hunting practices
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Does an LGBT person die?
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The only reference to queer people that the author makes are in the distant past, so, yeah, those people are long dead.
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Discussion of hunting
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Discussion of settlers torturing indigenous people. Some graphic description
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