Details

ISBN-10: 0805086846
ISBN-13: 9780805086843
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Publish Date: 05/15/2007
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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Overview

The landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century, now on its 50th Anniversary.

First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians 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. It was the basis for the 2007 movie of the same name from HBO films.

Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown introduces readers to great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes, revealing in heartwrenching detail the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom. A forceful narrative still discussed today as revelatory and controversial, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee permanently altered our understanding of how the American West came to be defined.

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Reviews

"Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking. . . . Impossible to put down."
The New York Times

"Shattering, appalling, compelling. . . . One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages."
The Washington Post

"A first-rate account–strongly and ardently written."
The New Yorker

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Details

ISBN-10: 0805086846
ISBN-13: 9780805086843
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Publish Date: 05/15/2007
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H
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