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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee MTI

An Indian History of the American West

By Hampton Sides, Dee Brown

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| Paperback | 9780805086843

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Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Now repackaged, with a new introduction from bestselContinue

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Now repackaged, with a new introduction from bestselling author Hampton Sides, to coincide with a major HBO dramatic film of the book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a terrific seller on the backlist, is poised to be rediscovered by a new and even larger audience of readers. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Browns classic, eloquent, meticulously 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 over four million copies in multiple editions and has been translated into 17 languages. 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 changed forever our vision of how the West was won, and lost. It tells a story that should not be forgotten, and so must be retold from time to time.

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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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