Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
History
James Mustich
Jul 30, 2018
“I have tried to fashion a narrative of the conquest of the American West as the victims experienced it, using their own words whenever possible.” So Dee Brown announced his intention in this book, which fundamentally altered our perspective of the past. Published in 1971, Brown’s unprecedented chronicle of the brutal campaigns that destroyed Native American culture and civilization—beginning in 1860 with the wars incited by the relocation of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of two hundred Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in December 1890—overturned the prevailing mythology of “how the West was won.” It is a disturbing, heartbreaking tale, told with both discipline and moral intensity in Brown’s gripping pages.
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DeAnn Rossetti
Oct 28, 2018
This book made me cry as a child of 10, and for the first time, it made me question the American history I was being taught in school.
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Peter Wilson
Oct 28, 2018
Not having been born in the US, this account dispelled many of the historical inaccuracies and implausibilities we were exposed to in school
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Alice Hutchinson
Jan 10, 2019
A heart-wrenching must read.
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Chris Bonham
Apr 8, 2019
I learned a lot from this book.
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Deirdre
Jun 25, 2019
Powerfully written, factual and confronting.
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Paul
Jan 7, 2024
High school
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Stefanie Mclellan
Jan 27, 2024
Must read
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Jeremy Johnson
Jul 10, 2024
Spell-binding read.
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