02502cam a2200301 4500 547215566 TxAuBib 20021218120000.0 010828t19711970||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 70121633 9780030853227 0030853222 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Brown, Dee Alexander. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West / by Dee Brown. [1st ed. New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1971] ©1970. xvii, 487 p : illus., music, ports ; 25 cm. Bibliography: p. 465-473. List of illustrations, Introduction ; “Their manners are decorous and praiseworthy”, The long walk of the Navahos, Little Crow’s war, War comes to the Cheyennes, Powder river invasion, Red Cloud’s war, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian”, The rise and fall of Donehogawa, Cochise and the Apache Guerrillas, The ordeal of Captain Jack, The war to save the buffalo, The war for the Black Hills, The flight of the Nez Perces, Cheyenne Exodus, Standing Bear becomes a person, “The Utes must go!”, The last of the Apache chiefs, Dance of the ghosts, Wounded Knees ; Notes, Bibliography, Index. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's classic, eloquent, meticulously 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 over four million copies in multiple editions and has been translated into seventeen languages. sing council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the series of battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them and their people demoralized and decimated. 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 won, and lost. It tells a story that should not be forgotten, and so must be retold from time to time. 20021218. Indians of North America Wars West (U.S.) Indians of North America West (U.S.) West (U.S) History. TXCKT