Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West

Type

Book

Authors

Dee Brown ( Brown, Dee )

ISBN 10

0805066691

ISBN 13

9780805066692

Tags

West (U.S.), West (U.S.) -- History, History, Dakota, Lakota, Ute, Indigenous peoples -- West (U.S.), Indigenous peoples -- Wars -- West (U.S.), Indigenous peoples -- West (U.S.) -- History, Indigenous peoples -- Wars, Navaho, Cheyenne, Apache, Nez Perce

Abstract

"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systemic 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.

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 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 version of how the West was really won."--Back cover.

Biblio Notes

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 Perces
Cheyenne Exodus
Standing Bear Becomes a Person
"The Utes Must Go!"
The Last of the Apache Chiefs
Dance of the Ghosts
Wounded Knee.

Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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