Bibliograph

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, an Indian history of the American West, Dee Brown

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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, an Indian history of the American West, Dee Brown

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-470) and index

Illustrations

musicportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

138074378

Responsibility statement

Dee Brown

Sub title

an Indian history of the American West

Summary

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 in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Hampton Sides -- Preface -- Introduction -- "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 Percés -- Cheyenne exodus -- Standing Bear becomes a person -- "The Utes must go!" -- The last of the Apache chiefs -- Dance of the ghosts -- Wounded Knee

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