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

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Macmillan, May 15, 2007 - History - 481 pages

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.

 

Contents

Their Manners Are Decorous and Praiseworthy
1
The Long Walk of the Navahos
13
CHAPTER TWO 1 Manuelito
17
Juanita wife of Manuelito
19
Navaho warrior of the 1860s
35
Little Crows War
37
Big Eagle
49
War Comes to the Cheyennes
67
CHAPTER TEN 17 Captain Jack
223
The War to Save the Buffalo
241
CHAPTER ELEVEN 18 Satanta
245
Lone Wolf
247
Kicking Bird
251
Ten Bears
259
White Horse
261
Quanah Parker
267

CHAPTER FOUR 6 Cheyenne and Arapaho Chiefs in Denver
81
Little Raven
85
George Bent and his wife Magpie
93
Edmond Guerrier
95
Powder River Invasion
103
CHAPTER FIVE 10 Red Cloud
109
Red Clouds War
121
CHAPTER SIX 11 Spotted Tail
127
The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian
147
CHAPTER SEVEN 12 Roman Nose
155
Tosawi
171
The Rise and Fall of Donehogawa
175
CHAPTER EIGHT 14 Donehogawa Ely Parker
176
Cochise and the Apache Guerrillas
191
CHAPTER NINE 15 Cochise
195
Eskiminzin
203
The Ordeal of Captain Jack
219
The War for the Black Hills
273
CHAPTER TWELVE 24 Sitting Bull
281
Gall
295
YoungManAfraidofHisHorses
301
Little Big Man
309
Crazy Horse
311
The Flight of the Nez Percés
315
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 32 Chief Joseph
319
X
331
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 33 Dull Knife
337
Little Wolf
339
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 35 Standing Bear
361
CHAPTER SIXTEEN 36 Ouray
369
Nicaagat Jack
375
Quinkent Douglas
378
Colorow
385
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Dee Brown was the author of over twenty-five books on the American West and the Civil War. His Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, considered a classic in its field, was a New York Times bestseller for over a year, and has been translated into many languages. Dee Brown died in 2002. Hampton Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine, and the author of Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, and, most recently, In the Kingdom of Ice.

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