Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dee Brown
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: History
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: History, Racism, Race, Nineteenth century, Midwest, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Ethnic groups, Ethnic relations, War, Massacres, Battles, Frontier or pioneer life
- Locales: United States
Critical Evaluation:
The title of this book, a poetic line from Stephen Vincent Benét’s “American Names,” introduces Dee Brown’s history of the Indians in the American West. Brown presents a factual as well as an emotional account of the relationship between the Indians, American settlers, and the U.S. government. The massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, provides the backdrop for the narrative. In his introduction, Brown states the reason for his work. Thousands of accounts about life in the American West of the late nineteenth century...
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