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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An Indian History of the American West

By Dee Brown

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| Paperback | 9780805017304

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Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down"

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documeContinue

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down"

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. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition -- published in both hardcover and paperback -- Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.

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.

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  • "The Killing of Crazy Horse": Unraveling the myth of Crazy Horse

    Making narrative out of a life like that of Crazy Horse presents the biographer with a daunting set of challenges. Shrouded in the mythology of the West and the mystery of his indomitability, Crazy Horse is a shadowy figure, whose exploits took place ... (read full critics)

    salon published on Fri, 10 Dec 2010

  • "The Killing of Crazy Horse": Unraveling the myth of Crazy Horse

    Making narrative out of a life like that of Crazy Horse presents the biographer with a daunting set of challenges. Shrouded in the mythology of the West and the mystery of his indomitability, Crazy Horse is a shadowy figure, whose exploits took place ... (read full critics)

    salon published on Mon, 6 Dec 2010

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    The story of a genocide

    Vote: 7.5/10

    Fantastic reading: the story of how Native Americans were constantly betrayed, cheated, exterminated in such a planned fashion makes you want to puke at the thought of being Caucasian. Only Hitler and Stalin managed similar stunts, and with less success.

    And for those Europeans that ... (continue)

    Vote: 7.5/10

    Fantastic reading: the story of how Native Americans were constantly betrayed, cheated, exterminated in such a planned fashion makes you want to puke at the thought of being Caucasian. Only Hitler and Stalin managed similar stunts, and with less success.

    And for those Europeans that blame "the Americans" for this genocide, think again: in 1860-1890 (when the genocide happened) the Americans were ALL first generation, maybe second generation...they were mostly British, French, German, Dutch, Spanish. So, you, us, Europeans: do we still feel we can have a clean conscience?

    This should make compulsory reading everywhere, not only in the States.

    Why only four stars then? Because if the story is compelling, the book's style is not. Very "matter of factly" written, it shows its limits in its strengths: this is just an endless list of betrayals upon betrayals, with no attempt to put it all in perspective. And it sometimes makes for very dull reading.

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