Where White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means

However, that being said, Russel Mean's story, of first trying to fight against this heritage, seeing what government hand outs, had done to the family, and then later fighting for the true nature of being an Indian left nothing to the imagination. This is one that i wish the book was the abridged and give me the unabridged audio book. I tried reading the dead tree version, but kept getting lost, and eventually borrowed the audio book version. Though from the stories he told, he's one stubborn SOB, the publisher probably tried to real him in and this is the best they got. Means could have used a better copy editor.

In the tradition of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Where White Men Fear to Tread is one of the most socially illuminating and provocative works to come along in many years.

Long awaited, this autobiography takes its place among the enduring works of America's greatest political and social leaders. We come away from Where White Men Fear to Tread knowing that Means is one of the bravest patriots in American history-a man in the tradition of Patrick Henry, Nat Turner, John Brown, Sitting Bull, and Abraham Lincoln, for these men are Means's true historical ancestors. Told against a larger historical background, Means's book retells the tragic quest of Indians to maintain their cultural identity in the face of unremitting white assimilation. The autobiography recounts Means's remarkable story-his incarcerations in prison, the thirteen assassination attempts on his life, his intellectual transformation to an outlaw personality, his spiritual awakening, and his most recent reincarnation as a Hollywood movie star in The Last of the Mohicans and Pocahontas. Wolf) tells the absorbing story of the accountant-turned-Indian activist who burst onto the national scene when he led a seventy-one-day armed takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973.Įver since, Means has done everything possible to dramatize the Indian wish for self-determination, from storming Mount Rushmore, to seizing Plymouth Rock, to fighting for the rights of indigenous Indian tribes in Central America, to running for President on the Libertarian ticket in 1988.

Where White Men Fear to Tread (written with Marvin J. An autobiography of epic scope-the riveting, controversial story of Russell Means, the most revolutionary Indian leader of the Twentieth Century.

Where White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means