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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
I wanted to read this as one of my books I should have read in high school, but I couldn't get through it in time. From The Washington Post: "Shattering, appalling, compelling ... One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages."
About the Book
Publisher’s description:
Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribes
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture.
Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won.
