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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by Dee Brown
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This book evocatively relates the sad tale of the final displacement of the American Indian from the West, covering the period from 1860 to the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890. |
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Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: Owl Books
Pub. in: January, 2001
ISBN: 0805066691
Pages: 512
Measurements: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00784
Other information: Anv edition
ISBN-13: 978-0805066692
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It is the New York Times Bestseller and a national bestseller which has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. |
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This well-researched piece is more than just a record of the original American tragedy. What Dee Brown has provided here is a carefully written account of a terribly one-sided clash of cultures - one Stone-age, the other in the throes of an industrial revolution. There was never any question about who would win. The sad thing is in how the cultural collision played itself out. For ultimately a cultural clash is an amalgamation of individual stories. In each case, Europeans and Native Americans alike, played out their conditioning to an end that was all too tragically clear.
The natives died defending their way of life, victims of superior technology and organization, as well as dehumanizing propaganda. They died on the reservations, victims of neglect and political invisibility. They died by the thousands, and soon no one was left to carry the cultural banner forward.
In the early 19th century, the plains and western tribes wandered at will over their homeland. By the early 20th century, native culture was completely disposessed; its representative peoples either locked up on reservations or absorbed completely in "white" culture. This book provides an answer as to how this transition occured, as painful as that answer might be.
Dee Brown's technically accurate and artistically rendered account is eminently readable. Yet chapter by chapter, the recurring theme becomes almost morbidly familiar. One begins to be able to predict what is ultimately going to happen after a while. The real message is that we can't blame ourselves for what happened. We can however, take responsibility for what is happening now. See humanity through Brown's eyes, and realize that such things as we have witnessed here can and do happen over and over again. The best we can do is to become aware of this capacity, do our best to overcome it - generation by generation, and follow a more honorable path.
The great tragedy is that, in the European's single-minded quest for land and freedom, something precious and irreplaceable was lost forever.
- From quoting Curtis L. Wilbur
Target readers:
History students or lovers
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Dee Brown was the Author of over 25 books on the American West and the Civil War. 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.
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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..." 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.
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Rhonda Fox (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-29 00:00>
Nothing could prepare me for the emotional effect that "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" would have on me. Dee Brown brings us the history of the white settlement of the American West as told by the people who were there, both white and Indian. This is not the history we learned in school, and the book will shatter the images of many of our heroes, but the story is important enough that I think every American should read it.
I also recommend "The Trail of Tears", by Gloria Jahoda, which is the history of the removal of the eastern tribes to the west. These two books are neccessary if you, as an American, want a complete education of American History.
Beyond education, these books present a people who loved the earth, trusted and respected mankind, and lived honorable lives. I trust that these stories of the near annihilation of our native people at the hands of our forefathers will effect you in unexpected ways, and that you will come away from the experience with new heroes, and a broken heart. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-29 00:00>
In Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown offers a compelling and honest view of Native American history told by the natives themselves. It is a heartwrenching and depressing account of one of the greatest atrocities comitted by one race of people against another - the drive of Native Americans from their homeland, the destruction of their culture and the lack of respect and due justice they recieved from the United States Government. This is a central piece of American history that is often brushed under the carpet. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is written in compelling, striking language. Your skin will crawl when you read about the Sand Creek Massacre. A must read for all Americans. |
Laura M. Dellinger (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-29 00:00>
As a student and fan of history I have read probably thousands of fiction, non-fiction and 'semi-fiction' books, but this could be the most powerful and affecting of them all. Although this book only covers a thirty-year portion of the early history between European settlers and the native peoples of the United States, the repetitive nature of the encounters depicted fully displays the shameful truths that school textbooks and most Western movies hid, ignored, misrepresented or lied about. In EACH case, the settlers - and later, the U.S. government itself - deceived, cheated, manipulated and brutalized the indigenous people. It began before the 1860s and - take it from a person on the scene - it continues to this very day, only by more subtle and low-profile methods. My respect for the author is immense because the history is well-researched and documented and is presented in an even tone that makes the emotional impact of the tragic and infuriating proceedings even more powerful.
This book caused me to see the stereotypical depictions from my youth of Indians as cruel and vicious savages in a much different light, because it brought me to ask myself if I and my fellow Caucasian Americans would act any differently when responding to an outside, invading force assaulting our country and trying to take possession of this country we consider our homeland. I highly recommend this book to anyone, novice or 'expert', who is interested in American history and/or Native American people. |
John G. Hilliard (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-29 00:00>
I have read some other books on the American Indians, but I must say that this is the most complete volume of their destruction that I have read. Not only does it give you a destruction time line, but also it does it in a very well written and gripping fashion. The author writes as best he can from the Indians viewpoint and I think this helps the reader get a better grasp of the pain the Indians went through. I knew it was a wonderfully written book by the fact that the pages just kept flowing, I never found myself slowed down or bored. It is just page after page of the US government taking advantage and overrunning the American Indians. The one constant it highlights is that the group with the most power can justify any crime, no matter how egregious in their name.
In the book the authors detail how a common phase came about in America, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian". I have heard that statement before but it did not mean much to me. Now after reading about the constant pressure the Americans put on the Indians and the disgusting about of violence, it has far more meaning. When you read a book like this you just keep asking yourself how can people commit these crimes against women and children? The author has also dug up a number of photos of the Indians he details which makes it even more power to see the people that were so aggressively destroyed. A wonderful book that every American should read to make sure we know the real history of the country. |
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