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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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By Dee Brown
Publisher Henry Holt Co.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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A true classic of American history,Bury My Heart at Wounded Kneeis Dee Browns eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell in their won words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, this book changed forever our vision of how the West was really won. A true classic of American history,Bury My Heart at Wounded Kneeis Dee Browns eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell in their won words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, this book changed forever our vision of how the West was really won. Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking....Impossible to put down.The New York Times Shattering, appalling, compelling....One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages.William McPherson,The Washington Post

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149275 words149,275 words
487 pages487 pages
Lexile 1160LLexile 1160L
Published 1991Published 1991

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