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

Review "Shattering, appalling, compelling...One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages." --William McPherson, The Washington Post"Extraordinarily powerful." --Nat Hentoff --Review"Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking . . . Impossible to put down. "-The New York Times --. Product Description Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown s classic, 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 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. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has become a watershed in American culture that changed forever our vision of how the West was won and lost. About the Author DORRIS ALEXANDER DEE BROWN (1908-2002), born in Louisiana, grew up in Arkansas, where he became friends with Native Americans. He worked as a reporter in Harrison, Arkansas, before becoming a teacher and librarian. He is the author of over twenty-five books on the American West and the Civil War.