Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: The Illustrated Edition: An Indian History of the American West (The Illustrated Editions)

Type

Book

Authors

Brown, Dee

ISBN 10

1402760663

ISBN 13

9781402760662

Tags

Native American, United States, Native American Studies

Description

"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is Dee Brown's eloquent and 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 great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the series of battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them and their people demoralized and decimated. The book covers from the 1860s, when the U.S. government removed the Navajo from their lands, to the final act in this horrendous period in American history, the bloody 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee and its aftermath.

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