Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0030853222
ISBN 13
9780030853227
Category
Native American History
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Publication Year
1970
Publisher
Pages
487
Subject
Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
Abstract
"Their manners are decorous and praiseworthy" -- 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" -- Rise and fall of Donehogawa -- Cochise and the Apache guerrillas -- Ordeal of Captain Jack -- War to save the buffalo -- War for the Black Hills -- Flight of the Nez Percés -- Cheyenne exodus -- Standing Bear becomes a person -- "The Utes must go!" -- Last of the Apache chiefs -- Dance of the ghosts -- Wounded knee.
Description
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. 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.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-473) and index.
Number of Copies
1
