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Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is the Native American story of the American West. In many ways the many stories told are all the same story: Native Americans are living happy lives in the West, and non-natives arrive and see the beauty of the land and make treaties with the native peoples and then immediately begin to break the treaties and scheme and lie and fight and kill in order to take their land. And it happens over and over and over again.

'"So tractable, so peaceable, are these people," C
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Erica
Jun 01, 2022 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2022
What a sad book. As literature, it may be a little lacking. Brown kept his own voice out of this telling. He doesn't even provide a closing. It just ends with the final act of genocide and a quote by Black Elk. There is no summing it up. It leave you feeling empty, unfinished. No background or "character" development is given to any of the players. There are so many names thrown around, it became hard to keep track of who was who. Maybe this was all intentional, I am not really sure. It does giv ...more
Lisa of Hopewell
Oct 18, 2024 rated it really liked it
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This is one of the few books I can remember my Dad sitting down and reading. My Mom may even still have his copy. 54 years ago this book and the Native American Rights movement, along with the Vietnam War, legalizing abortion, and W
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MichelleCH
Jan 26, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Sarah
Jan 24, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: history, nrpg
Eleanor
Nov 10, 2021 rated it really liked it
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Katie
Nov 01, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Deborah
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Stacey
Oct 24, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Jay Corrales
Aug 29, 2020 marked it as to-read
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Traci
Dec 05, 2020 marked it as check-these-out-further
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