In this essay, Douglas Dupler examines the effectiveness of the technique used by an historian to record an alternative history of North America.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, written by the eminent historian Dee Brown is an epic history of the invasion of Native America by the white Europeans. Many histories that deal with this time period are written from the point of view of the white conquerors and tend to ignore or de-emphasize the violence and deceit perpetrated by the United States government and the European settlers upon Native America. Brown shows that the “westward expansion” of white history was much more complicated when viewed from another angle....
Source: Nonfiction Classics for Students, ©2013 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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