Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: Indian History of the American West - Hardcover
The Author documents the history of the White Mans Settlement in the American West, emphasising the Indians point of view and reconstructing the period of Westward Expansion 1860- 1890. Using previously unpublished records of treaty councils and other formal meetings the author Dee Brown, Librarian at the University of Illinois, records the statements of the Indians describing the white mans destructiveness, duplicity, brutality and treachery.
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"Shattering, appalling, compelling...One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages."--William McPherson, "The Washington Post" "Extraordinarily powerful."--Nat Hentoff "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking . . . Impossible to put down."--"The New York Times"
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Shattering, appalling, compelling...One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages. "William McPherson, The Washington Post"
Extraordinarily powerful. "Nat Hentoff"
Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking . . . Impossible to put down. "The New York Times""
Shattering, appalling, compelling...One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages. William McPherson, The Washington Post
Extraordinarily powerful. Nat Hentoff
Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking . . . Impossible to put down. The New York Times
""Shattering, appalling, compelling...One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages." --William McPherson, The Washington Post
"Extraordinarily powerful." --Nat Hentoff
"Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking . . . Impossible to put down." --The New York Times
The shocking and compelling story about the original inhabitants of America and the first book to focus on their plight.
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- PublisherBarrie & Jenkins
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0214653684
- ISBN 13 9780214653681
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages509
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