Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown (Author)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully 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 us in their own 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, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won
Print Book, English, 1971
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Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1971
History
xvii, [5], 487 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
9780030853227, 9780030862106, 9780805017304, 0030853222, 0030862108, 0805017305
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"Their manners are decorous and praiseworthy"
The long walk of the Navahos
Little Crow's war
War comes to the Cheyennes
Powder River invasion
Red Cloud's war
"The only good Indian is a dead Indian"
The rise and fall of Donehogawa
Cochise and the Apache guerrillas
The ordeal of Captain Jack
The war to save the buffalo
The war for the Black Hills
The flight of the Nez Percés
Cheyenne exodus
Standing Bear becomes a person
"The Utes must go!"
Th elast of the Apache chiefs
Dance of the ghosts
Wounded knee