My uncle eventually told me the reason he left, was he just couldn't deal with the wretchedness of the whole affair. My paternal grandparents were from Topeka Kansas and my uncle had worked for a number of years at the Bureau Of Land Management, which had reservations as one of it's concern. I felt so angry and mistrustful toward the traditional telling of history, or our "not" telling of history that I spend a great deal of time talking with my relatives and grandparents about their recall of native people they had known and worked with. I was a senior in high school on my way to college and I was really taken aback by it's powerful and intense telling of those years in American history. I read "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" the summer of the year it was published. And it even more of a shame because the book this material is based upon was so thoroughly unique. In past programs they have done such an excellent job of portraying an era, Rome being one very effective example. It's really sad because I would have expected so much more from HBO. Everything and everyone involved in this production was presented in such a way as to be a cliché, an unfortunate stereotype of the real events and people this show was based upon.
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