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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West /

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: xvii, [5], 487 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0030853222
  • 9780030853227
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.DDC classification:
  • 970.5
LOC classification:
  • E81 .B75 1971
Contents:
"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 Perc�es -- Cheyenne exodus -- Standing Bear becomes a person -- "The Utes must go!" -- Th elast of the Apache chiefs -- Dance of the ghosts -- Wounded knee.
Summary: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. 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 really won.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 970.5 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) E81 .B75 1971 1 Available 34517000211121

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-473).

"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 Perc�es -- Cheyenne exodus -- Standing Bear becomes a person -- "The Utes must go!" -- Th elast of the Apache chiefs -- Dance of the ghosts -- Wounded knee.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. 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 really won.

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