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

Description

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971| “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived.
Now repackaged with a new introduction from bestselling author Hampton Sides to coincide with a major HBO dramatic film of the book| “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
“”Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee “is Dee Brown’s classic| eloquent| meticulously 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 over four million copies in multiple editions and has been translated into seventeen languages..
Using council records| autobiographies| and firsthand descriptions| Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota| Ute| Sioux| Cheyenne| and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the series of battles| massacres| and broken treaties that finally left them and their people demoralized and decimated.
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 won| and lost.
It tells a story that should not be forgotten| and so must be retold from time to time.