Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American WestNow 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. 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. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition -- published in both hardcover and paperback -- Brown has contributed an incisive new preface. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the 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 vision of how the West was really won. |
Contents
Their Manners Are Decorous and Praiseworthy | 1 |
The Long Walk of the Navahos | 13 |
Little Crows War | 37 |
War Comes to the Cheyennes | 67 |
Powder River Invasion | 103 |
Red Clouds War | 121 |
The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian | 147 |
The Rise and Fall of Donehogawa | 175 |
The Flight of the Nez Percés | 315 |
Cheyenne Exodus | 331 |
Standing Bear Becomes a Person | 351 |
The Utes Must Go | 367 |
The Last of the Apache Chiefs | 391 |
Dance of the Ghosts | 415 |
Wounded Knee | 439 |
NOTES | 451 |
Other editions - View all
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown Limited preview - 2007 |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown Limited preview - 2009 |
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
The Indigenous Voice in World Politics: Since Time Immemorial Franke Wilmer No preview available - 1993 |