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| View Larger Image | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
| | List Price: | $16.00 | | Price: | $12.96 | | You Save: | $3.04 (19%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 5051 | | Studio: | Holt Paperbacks | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 512 | | Publication Date: | January 23, 2001 | | Publisher: | Holt Paperbacks |
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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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First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 166 reviews)
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COWBOYS AND INDIANS 
Have you ever played cowbow and indians when you were a boy? I did and always wanted to be the cowboy. After reading this book I'd like to be a good cowboy not the ones portrayed here. Introduction-"This is not a cheerful book, but history has a way of intruding upon the present, and perhaps those who read it will have a clearer understanding of what the American Indian is, by knowing what he was. And if the readers of this book should ever chance to see the poverty, the hopelessness, and the squalor of a modern Indian reservation, they may find it possible to truly understand the reasons why. What adds a lot of value to this already exceptional book is the full page black & white pictures of Indians such as Geronimo,Sitting Bull-who killed Custard, Cochise, Lone Wolf, Red Cloud, Young-Man-Afraid-Of-His-Horses, White Horse,Little Crow,Crazy Bear, Little Big Man, and more. What is also added value is at the start of each chapter is a one page historical event calendar such as Chapter 17: 1880-June 1, population of United States is 50,155,783, 1881 Mar 4, James Garfield inaugurated as President, 1882-April 3, Jesse James shot and killed at St. Joseph, Missiouri. Sep 4, Edison switches on first commercial electric lights in New York Central Station. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn published. and much more! There were many different tribes of Indians such as Apaches, Sioux, Brules, Sans Arcs, Blackfoot Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahos, and more which the author effectively writes about. To me, the killing of women, little children, and babies was unfathomable. Who do you think did this? Read the book and find out! You won't be able to put it down. It took me one day to read it and I'm now going to Blockbuster to look for the DVD.
Highly recommend anything on or about Robert E. Howard the creator of Conan The Barbarian, Kull, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and more! The Life & Art of REH, The Last of the Trunk, and Selected Letters.
July 21, 2008 | |
Amazing
Makes me ashamed of what my people did. Why this book is not required reading for high school students is a tragic mystery. An entire section of American history that needs to be understood by all citizens.
June 21, 2008 | |
The True Story of How the West Was Won
The recent HBO movie based loosely on this book did no justice to these wrenching stories describing the decimation of the American Indian. Can it be that whites simply cannot comprehend the Indian culture and the tragedies tribes endured at the hands of the Great Father (as were called American presidents) and his minions?
Visit a tribal reservation and you'll witness firsthand impoverished Indians, beaten down to a shadow of their once proud selves. Brave and fearless, they fought hard for the right to live in their homelands. True conservationists, they could not comprehend our greed for land. Said Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, "The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. . . . The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it. . . ."
Dee Brown's magnificent book should be required reading for all studying American history.
May 04, 2008 | |
A Classic
This book is truely a classic and a big inspiration for my own work on the Lakota Sioux who escaped to Canada. They Never Surrendered: The Lakota Sioux Band That Stayed In Canada
May 02, 2008 | |
An important book - Well documented and a good though sad read
There's a saying - "history is written by the winners" and you never realise how true it really is till you read books like this one, which tells the story of the "losers" in history from their own point of view. From the moment of discovery of "the new world" it has been a story of decimation of the native tribes and this is the first account of the American West I've read that consistently gives the Indian point of view. You realise reading this that they didn't really stand much of chance against an onslaught of greed and dishonesty that engulfed their lands.
Unfortunately, this story is not unique and has been repeated, with variations, in many places in the world (eg Peru, Mexico , Australia & Canada) what is somewhat surprising is that as much as survived as it has of what the Indians thought of the constantly broken treaties and massacres of their people given their almost universal illiteracy. (Much thinner histories survive from other countries where similar events happened)
Any study of the spread of white culture in the 19th century in America should include books like this - they are a needed dose of reality and give depth to a story that otherwise is extremely one sided and provide a history that needs to be remembered in its own right.
April 28, 2008 | |
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