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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West / Dee Brown.

Summary:

Documents and personal narratives record the experiences of Native Americans during the nineteenth century. 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. 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780805066692
  • ISBN: 0805066691
  • ISBN: 9780805086843
  • ISBN: 0805086846
  • ISBN: 9780606265867
  • ISBN: 0606265864
  • Physical Description: xxv, 481 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : H. Holt & Co., [2007]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in 1971.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-470) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Ch.1. "Their Manners Are Decorous and Praiseworthy" -- Ch. 2. The Long Walk of the Navahos -- Ch. 3. Little Crow's War -- Ch. 4. War Comes to the Cheyennes -- Ch. 5. Powder River Invasion -- Ch. 6. Red Cloud's War -- Ch. 7. "The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian" -- Ch. 8. The Rise and Fall of Donehogawa -- Ch. 9. Cochise and the Apache Guerrillas -- Ch. 10. The Ordeal of Captain Jack -- Ch. 11. The War to Save the Buffalo -- Ch. 12. The War for the Black Hills -- Ch. 13. The Flight of the Nez Perces -- Ch. 14. Cheyenne Exodus -- Ch. 15. Standing Bear Becomes a Person -- Ch. 16. "The Utes Must Go!" -- Ch. 17. The Last of the Apache Chiefs -- Ch. 18. Dance of the Ghosts -- Ch. 19. Wounded Knee.
Study Program Information Note:
Reading Counts RC 9-12 8.9 38.0 1674.
Subject:
Indians of North America > Wars > West (U.S.)
Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > History.
Genre:
Informational works.
Personal narratives.

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