It tells a story that should not be forgotten, and so must be retold from time to time. 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. 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 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. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Lyrics: Indian legislations on the desk of a do-right Congressman / Now, he dont know much about the issue / So he picks up. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Paperback by Dee Brown (Author), Hampton Sides (Foreword) 8,030 ratings See all formats and editions Price New from Used from Kindle 'Please retry' 12.82 Audible Audiobook, Unabridged 'Please retry' 0. 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.
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