I never seem to find time for non-fiction, but this is yet another one that I need to make a priority. A family member just read it and raved about it, and that reminded me that this has been on my to-read list for far too long.
I’ve been hearing about this book for ages, and I know it’s considered a modern classic.
I’ve been exploring Native American fiction over the years, but feel like there are still so many gaps in my knowledge when it comes to understanding the history of Native Americans and the impact of US policies. I bought the Kindle edition several years ago. 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.
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. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition-published in both hardcover and paperback-Brown has contributed an incisive new preface. 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. 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.”īury 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. What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads) : Published: Originally published 1970 30th anniversary edition published 2001 Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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