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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-473)

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portraitsillustrationsmusic

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

by Dee Brown

Sub title

An Indian History of the American West

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

"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

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