Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Alexander Brown 1971

Author: Dee Alexander Brown Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Edition Description: Illustrated ISBN-10: 0030853222
Subject: History ISBN-13: 9780030853227
Topic: INDIAN ACCOUNTS Format: Book
Language: English Publication Year: 1971
Condition: Very Good
"'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' is a much better book than the title would indicate; it is, in fact, extraordinary on several accounts. It is first and foremost a compelling history of the American West, distinguished not because it is...an Indian history...but because it is so carefully documented and designed....Mr. Brown's book is a story, a whole narrative of singular integrity and precise continuity; that is what makes the book so hard to put aside, even when one has come to the end."Publisher:
HOLT RINEHART & WINSTON DEE BROWNS's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, first published in 1970 is a HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS in the American West in the late nineteenth century, and their displacement and slaughter by the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

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Chapter by chapter, this book moves from tribe to tribe of Native Americans, and outlines the relations of the tribes to the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT during the years 1860-1890. It begins with the NAVAJOS, APACHES, and the other tribes of the Southwest who were displaced as California and the surrounding states were settled. Brown chronicles the changing and sometimes conflicting attitudes both of American authorities such as General CUSTER and Indian chiefs, particularly GERONIMO, RED COUD SITTING BULL AND CRAZY HORSE. and their different attempts to save their peoples, by peace, war, or retreat. The later part of the book focuses primarily on the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes of the plains, who were among the last to be moved onto reservations, under perhaps the most violent circumstances. It culminates with the Battle of the LITTLE BIGHORN the murders of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and the slaughter of Sioux prisoners at WOUNDED KNEE that is generally considered the end of the INDIAN WARS
Chapters
# "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 Percés# Cheyenne Exodus# Standing Bear Becomes a Person# "The Utes Must Go!"# The Last of the Apache Chiefs# Dance of the Ghosts# Wounded Knee.
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