false 76401 39 First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, <I>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee</I> has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. <I>--John Stevenson</I> 1240262 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West total:3101|5:1422|4:1105|3:459|2:97|1:18| 3101 13119 4767 449 5 7 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 16 11:33:09 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 25 18:47:40 -0700 2008
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a responsibility to read it. it is a harsh
history lesson and i was in tears at the end
of the first page.

dont think any other book has made me curse
out loud like this one has.
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First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee i...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 06:03:11 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 06:38:12 -0700 2009 Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations, a history of the contemporary American Indian civil rights movement, but my father borrowed the book before I could get started. So, I decided that past is prologue and picked up this gem, which gives an abridged, but pa...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:27:17 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:47:49 -0700 2009 more...]]>