A Century of Dishonor by Helen Jackson

     This is one of the best books I've read on the subject matter. Helen Jackson does a great job of recounting how the US Government reneged on every treaty it signed with the Native American People.
     In reading this book for a second time, there were some issues which caught my eye this time around. The theory of right of occupancy in itself shows the arrogance of the interlopers from Europe.
The idea you would recognize the Native American people right to occupy said land because Europeans felt the legitimacy of their recognition would legalize the Native people to occupy land they lived on for thousands of years in which the foreigners conspired to steal through a plethora of treaties.
     I found it interesting Native Americans were considered unsaved because some of them rejected the foreigners religion of Christianity.  In all truthfulness, the Native American people were more Christian than the Europeans without the title of Christianity. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces people stated once, he did not want the missionaries to bring schools and churches to the Wallowa Reservation because they would be taught how to quarrel about God the way Protestants and Catholics do; they did not want to learn that behavior because the Nez Perces people already understood there is no place to quarrel about God.
     This book is worth the time spent reading and studying; it is one of my favorites, so I had to purchase it to be part of my personal library.