Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
 

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown

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.... (more)

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Dame Maggie Salisbury
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Broke my heart over and over again. The picture of the greatest men of entire races being butchered, often under a flag of truce or a promise of parley, by idiot, drunken soldiers will never leave me. And the white men honestly thought they were superior! We made treaties with Native Americans for one reason--to break them.

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  • LF

    lf said:

    This is not where the spread of humankind is buried, but where a dream encapsulates the nightmare of mans cruelty and insensitivity, but has there been any lessonslearnt ? No, now the imperial machine plunders on insanely but now with a dainty kerchief dabbing at the guilt ridden snot of a drugged out generation appealing to political acumen in a ever tightening, speeding and diminishing world.

    posted Friday, August 22 2008
  • Shari L

    shari l said:

    I agree, should be required high school reading. It really opened my eyes about the shameful way the first people to live on this land we call the USA were treated. There were lots of broken promises made.

    posted Wednesday, February 13 2008
  • CoolingStarBright

    coolingstarbright said:

    Masha Allah Seeyah, maybe I'll borrow from the library. I'd rather see it, but you know!

    posted Tuesday, July 17 2007

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