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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the by Dee Brown

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By Dee Brown

Dee Brown’s strong and unforgettable vintage that woke up the area to the nineteenth-century decimation of yank Indian tribes

First released in 1970, Bury My center at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of yankee Indian tribes around the western frontier. during this nonfiction account, Dee Brown specializes in the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by means of American Indians among 1860 and 1890. He tells of the various tribes and their well known chiefs—from Geronimo to purple Cloud, Sitting Bull to mad Horse—who struggled to wrestle the destruction in their humans and culture.

Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My center at Wounded Knee encouraged a iteration to take a re-evaluation at how the West was once won.

This publication beneficial properties an illustrated biography of Dee Brown together with infrequent photographs from the author’s own collection.

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