Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West

Label

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West

Title remainder

an Indian history of the American West

Statement of responsibility

by Dee Brown

Creator

• Brown, Dee, 1908-2002

Subject

• West (U.S.) -- History
• Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History
• Indians of North America -- West (U.S.)
• Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)

Language

eng

Summary

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 hardcover edition, 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

978/.00497

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E81

LC item number

.B75 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography