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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown 

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Description

The landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century, now on its 50th Anniversary.

First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians 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. It was the basis for the 2007 movie of the same name from HBO films.

Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown introduces readers to great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes, revealing in heartwrenching detail the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom. A forceful narrative still discussed today as revelatory and controversial, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee permanently altered our understanding of how the American West came to be defined.

Product Details

PublisherHolt Paperbacks
Publish DateMay 15, 2007
Pages512
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780805086843
Dimensions8.2 X 139.7 X 33.0 mm | 1.0 pounds
BISAC Categories: History, History

About the Author

Dee Brown was the author of more than twenty-five books on the American West and the Civil War. A librarian for many years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brown died in 2002.

Reviews

"Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking. . . . Impossible to put down."
The New York Times

"Shattering, appalling, compelling. . . . One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages."
The Washington Post

"A first-rate account—strongly and ardently written."
The New Yorker

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