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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An Indian History of the American West

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

By: Dee Brown
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions. Brown allows 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 - and lost.©1970 Dee Brown; Preface 2000 by Dee Brown (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Americas Indigenous Peoples United States Native American Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Scary Thought-Provoking Military Wild West Old West American History Social justice
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"Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking....Impossible to put down." ( New York Times)
"Shattering, appalling, compelling....One wonders...who indeed were the savages." ( Washington Post)
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Beautiful book read very well. Full of irony and pathos. The famous names jump out to inject life into the words whilst the reminder of so many thousands of anonymous brave men and women who were simply trying to live their lives in their country!

Beautiful inspiring history

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A gripping and harrowing telling of man's inhumanity during the theft of tribal lands from native Americans. We must remember this.

The Sad Path to Wounded Knee

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Possibly the saddest history I’ve ever read. Shockingly frank, it tells the story of a noble people, outgunned, overwhelmed and mistreated. The settlers rapacious greed and sense of entitlement is ugly beyond belief. The government and their agents behaved despicably. The Native Americans innocence, trusting nature and ability to forgive shames so called Christian invaders

A pitiful tale, painful to hear but an important work that is well worth reading. Highly recommended

Genocide, betrayal, extortion, theft, deceit & bigotry

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I’ve come back again and again to this chronology of a unique culture and people destroyed over such a relatively short period in recent history. I first read this book 25 years ago and it has stayed with me since. To read the of the treatment of the Indians in such an evil way, the cheating and dishonesty of an entire country and its deliberate policies. The repeated slaughter of Indian men, women and children is appalling. A book everyone should read at least once, I can’t recommend this highly enough.

It breaks my heart to hear this story…

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At first I struggled with the quantity of tribes mentioned and the jumping about from place to place but as soon as it settled into strands of storyline, following one tribe at a time it was gripping. listening to this with a 2020 mindset it's hard not to feel sadness, disgust and just a little bit guilty for the mistreatment of the Indians

griping

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