An important book - Well documented and a good though sad read

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	• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown Holt Paperbacks, 2001 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 165 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Sad History

"Bury my Heart" is without out a doubt one of the most educational yt sad books that I have ever read. However sad and disgusting the facts are, though, the book should be required reading in every single high school U.S. History class.

An important book - Well documented and a good though sad read

There's a saying - "history is written by the winners" and you never realise how true it really is till you read books like this one, which tells the story of the "losers" in history from their own point of view. From the moment of discovery of "the new world" it has been a story of decimation of the native tribes and this is the first account of the American West I've read that consistently gives the Indian point of view. You realise reading this that they didn't really stand much of chance against an onslaught of greed and dishonesty that engulfed their lands.

Unfortunately, this story is not unique and has been repeated, with variations, in many places in the world (eg Peru, Mexico , Australia & Canada) what is somewhat surprising is that as much as survived as it has of what the Indians thought of the constantly broken treaties and massacres of their people given their almost universal illiteracy. (Much thinner histories survive from other countries where similar events happened)

Any study of the spread of white culture in the 19th century in America should include books like this - they are a needed dose of reality and give depth to a story that otherwise is extremely one sided and provide a history that needs to be remembered in its own right.

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The True Story of How the West Was Won

The recent HBO movie based loosely on this book did no justice to these wrenching stories describing the decimation of the American Indian. Can it be that whites simply cannot comprehend the Indian culture and the tragedies tribes endured at the hands of the Great Father (as were called American presidents) and his minions?

Visit a tribal reservation and you'll witness firsthand impoverished Indians, beaten down to a shadow of their once proud selves. Brave and fearless, they fought hard for the right to live in their homelands. True conservationists, they could not comprehend our greed for land. Said Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, "The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. . . . The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it. . . ."

Dee Brown's magnificent book should be required reading for all studying American history.

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A Classic

This book is truely a classic and a big inspiration for my own work on the Lakota Sioux who escaped to Canada. They Never Surrendered: The Lakota Sioux Band That Stayed In Canada

Absolute Required Reading

'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' by Dee Brown.

A poignant recount of the injustices done to the American Indians. Detailed and amazing stories of of individuals, both Indian and the Army ordered to expel them from their lands, shine through in this absolutely unparalleled work of history.

This book should be required reading in every high school in America. It is a vivid portrait of many proud peoples grappling with having all that they cared about taken away from them - their land, their pride, their homes, their lives.

Read it 10 times. It will make you wince and question our history. However, it should also serve to teach us what horrors man is capable of carrying out and recognizing that we must not ever allow this to happen again.

It is a beautifully sad, amazingly true tale of many proud peoples and the generational destruction caused by Manifest Destiny.

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Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down"

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. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition -- published in both hardcover and paperback -- Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.

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.

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