Description
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE is Dee Brown's eloquent and meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, auto-biographies and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Lakota/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. The book covers from the 1860's, when the U.S. government removed the Navajo from their lands, to the final act in this horrendous period in American history, the bloody 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee and its aftermath.
Now, in this new 40th Anniversary Edition of BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE more that 300 illustrations make the story even more vivid and compelling. Also included are 19 essays and excerpts - culled from firsthand accounts and memoirs, and highly acclaimed books by noted American Indians and historians - that add depth and reflection to this momentous work. Included in this group are passages from Where White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means; Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog; and The Patriot Chiefs by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. - as well as essays by contemporary historians and Native American leaders like Elliott West and Joseph Marshall III.
Although not a Native American himself, Brown became a novelist and historian of the American frontier, with a deep love of Native American culture and a keen awareness of the Indians' tragic dispossession.