Book description
Russell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life, in which he did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim of self-determination, such as storming Mount Rushmore, seizing Plymouth Rock,…
Why read it?
1 author picked Where White Men Fear to Tread as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This may be the most honest autobiography I’ve ever read. Means spares no one, especially not himself.
What made this book memorable to me is its intimate look into the heart of Means, as he relates his successes and failures in meeting the challenges of being an American Indian. Means traveled a painful and tortuous road to finally become a significant leader of the late twentieth-century Indian movement for recognition, reparation, and self-determination.
From S.L.'s list on The best books about the beauty and challenges of being Native American.
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