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For the first time: a full-color illustrated edition of Dee Brown’s classic history of the American West!
Eloquent, heartbreaking, and meticulously documented, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee follows the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century. Upon its publication in 1970, the book was universally lauded and became a cultural phenomenon that proved instrumental in transforming public perceptions of manifest destiny and the “winning” of the West.
Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown’s work highlighted the voices of those American Indians who actually experienced the battles, massacres, and broken treaties. Here is their view of the events that ultimately left them demoralized and defeated, including: the Battle of Sand Creek; Red Cloud’s War; the Battle of the Little Bighorn; and, of course, the Wounded Knee Massacre. Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Spotted Tail—the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Cheyenne, and other tribes—come to life through their own words and formal portraits.
Now, hundreds of illustrations—including maps, photographs, sketches, and paintings—enhance Brown’s masterpiece, making it even more vivid and personal. In addition to the incredible images, this edition also features relevant excerpts from such highly acclaimed Native-American themed books as Where White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means, Mystic Chords of Memory by Michael Kammen, and Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog, as well as all-new essays by contemporary historians and Native American leaders like Elliott West and Joseph Marshall III.
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- Sales Rank: #843562 in Books
- Published on: 1979
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 458 pages
Amazon.com Review
First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson
From Library Journal
This 1970 volume greatly changed the view of pioneers' westward advancement. Based largely on primary source materials, this volume details how white settlers forced Indian tribes off the plains, often simply by killing them. Though Hollywood and penny dreadfuls portrayed Indians as red devils who launched unprovoked attacks on innocent homesteaders, Brown's research shows that the opposite is closer to the truth. The text is buttressed with numerous period photos. An essential purchase. (LJ 12/15/70)
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From Booklist
It is a hard fact that history creates winners and losers. Brown’s landmark work, first published in 1970, movingly illustrated that truism as he narrates the destruction of the cultures of various Native American groups in the trans-Mississippi west between 1860–90. Brown, who was a librarian at the University of Illinois for decades, was determined to balance the books by writing an account of the winning of the West from a Native American perspective. This latest edition, embellished by more than 300 illustrations and several interesting essays, has both the weaknesses and strengths of the original work. Critics, with some justification, have noted Brown’s glossing over the unsavory aspects of some Native American groups, including their idealization of warfare. In his efforts to portray Native Americans as victims, his constant emphasis on American rapaciousness and duplicity is over the top. Still, Brown’s essential message retains its power and conveys eloquently the tragedy of a people displaced and humiliated by the advance of an expanding aggressive civilization that they could neither cope with nor comprehend. --Jay Freeman
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Education About Indians Reaches far Beyond School
By Edith G. Amundsen
Indeed it was heartbreaking; I thought I had been given quite a detailed, liberal, truthful education about the late 1800's in America in a great high school (I was lucky enough to live in a tiny Chicago suburb which got included with several large wealthy towns). I know I got even more detail and some broader facts (WHY were so many millions pouring into North America from Europe just then, putting so much pressure on the federal government, and then on the American Indians?). I even got to know a number of Indians during my first job , right out of Law School, in a small 2- lawyer firm, because my boss was determined not to let any Indian (most of them near our city were Menominiee or Oneida) go without legal representation when charged with a crime, and many of them were "working poor," just a hair over the "poverty line" for Public Defender (state-paid) attorneys. He never charged them anything for his or my work, and if the charge was a felony which occurred on their reservation, it was automatically a federal crime and handled in U.S. District Trial Court. That meant traveling three hour each way to Milwaukee for each court hearing. We talked a lot, about old times, their parents, grandparents, ancestors from before white settlers arrived in Wisconsin - stories were handed down for decades, often with sketches on skins, since the 1600's. This was a real eye-opener to me; I couldn't understand how they could be so polite to us whites. One man who was Tribal Court Judge (for non-felony crimes on the res.) laughed when I said that and said "Honey, we don't have any other choice."
Then, last week, I read "Bury My Heart..." I thought I had read the worst stuff, but I had not; in this beutifully-researched book, I read of the most inexcusable atrocities, read of the repeated land-grabs and treaty-breaking moves whenever gold, silver, water, or simply more land was desired. I knew that horrible things happened because there was no respect for the signed government contracts (treaties) or the general ethics and morals in the treatment of the millions of mostly-peaceable people who whose sole "crime" was to be here in North America first. I never knew, however, how direct the President and many Generals, such as Sheridan and then Sherman (he of the notorious and unnecessary "March to the Sea" near the end of the Civil War), constantly set up roadblocks to decent land even when tribes or sub-groups of tribes were willing to sign treaties and go to a reservation - Sherman often demanded death for chiefs as well as capitulation of all of the people under them. The famous "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" has been attributed to Gen. Sherman, as well. Brown's research brought me more surprises, in that I learned that President Grant was far more reasonable and even sympathetic to the Plains Indians than his generals, and he countermanded many orders resulting in saving the lives of well-loved Chiefs. Grant wisely appreciated that working with the chiefs would save lives, and pain of many kinds. (By the time Grant was Pres., most of the eastern and midwestern tribes had been subdued and driven onto reservations, fled to Canada, or were killed by European diseases or bullets).
The most shocking passages in this book need not be reviewed here; they are many, far more than I had ever imagined. At the slightest provocation, whole villages ( women, children, even unborn babies) were slaughtered while the adult male warriors were ready to do battle at a specific place arranged for, or at least well known by, the American troops, sometimes with paid enemy Indian agents' help. It was common, when the men came back to their village to see the horrors done to their families, for the soldiers to surround them and attack again, either to slaughter once more or take the Indians as prized slave-prisoners. Wounded Knee and Sand Creek, both named for peaceful little streams where Indians liked to set up camp, were two sites of such slaughter, and they are certainly not the only ones where any American Indian would want to bury his or her heart. What a book. Just the photographs are hauntingly beautiful. Every white American should read it. The problem is, the ones who need the education it offers the most would never, ever, read it. Too bad...
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Brutal Truths
By Jones
Before Howard Zinn and his "people's history...", Brown composed this masterpiece of truth telling. Far from a vague account of noble savages, this is a telling of what white supremacy and manifest destiny cost the Native tribes here. It is fraught with a cruel, straight forward redundancy about the making of these United States. The West was not won but stolen--with massacres, forced marches, broken treaties, outright lies, unceasing dehumanization, determined injustice, and the deliberate dissolution of many indigenous civilizations. The brokenness of the reservation, generally, and sad plight of many descendants who remain is not at all mysterious.
This book is not a page turner, though it is interesting. Honestly, it's often difficult to read the accounts of treachery upon treachery. Yet, it is as important as anything I've read about the fallout of European colonialism, capitalism before humanity, and the making of this nation. The accounts are straightforward and never maudlin, yet I cannot imagine reading it carefully without sorrow or finishing it without a more thoughtful, critical view of US history. Bitter medicine.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Rich in detail -- a must read to understand American military policy
By John Bell
Published in 1970 this book was a bestseller with over 5 million copies sold. This book was forgotten until the North Dakota Pipe Line – NDPL – became news and the Natives pushed back regarding their tribal heritage and assault on their environmentally light mode of living. The assaults against them by mercenaries hired by the pipeline company & local police, especially against Sophia Wilansky while handing out bottled water ... who may yet loose function a/o anatomy of her LUE due to assault by a concussive grenade. How does this story interface with the US Calvary’s treatment of the Natives 1865-1890?
At dawn on a given day the US Calvary would attack a peaceful Indian village and destroy everything (people of all ages, lodges, food, clothing, horses etc) but ~ 50 would escape during the melee. They would scrape together a meager living during the ensuing months and eventually their revenge would well up and then they would attack a peaceful ranch or farmstead – murdering and marauding all whites present. Only then would the newspapers get involved throwing brickbats at those “dirty savages ... the only good Indian is a dead one ... etc”.
Just what the Calvary had intended. Oh joy. They, in turn go on the rampage and destroy any and all Indian villages in the region. More push back and more slaughter. This M.O. happened endlessly throughout the American West. The author, Dee Brown, garnered most of his narrative from US Calvary reports along with newspaper and diaries. This book is rich in detail and documentation but there are few footnotes.
With over 500 broken treaties ― all by the US Government ― and the repeated assaults with over 10 million killed Indians ― Adolf Hitler is a piker in comparison to American depredations ― just what were the Indian treaties-&-wars about? Being that ‘Wounded Knee’ antedates all the present controversy ... it carries substantial weight on the historicity of Pine Ridge. Ergo, to understand the NDPL then read this incredible book by Brown.
I was an American History major in college and I assure you that all this information on the ‘Indian Wars’ has been sanitized from American classrooms. Americans were not then and are not now to understand the barbarity of the US Military and governments at all levels.
Many say history is pass� and of no use in the modern era. Balderdash! What happened to the Indians is happening today and writ large. Obama’s drone strikes, for example, have murdered ~ 3K innocents in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc ... this makes the locals mad as hell RE the slaughter of innocents ... so they did as the Indians of yore ― strike out at Westerners with revenge killings and only then does the media get involved talking about the “dirty, vicious, filthy Muslims’ who in turn, are bombed repeatedly which results in more revenge killings. This story plays out ad infinitum ... the citizens see the violence and carnage but can’t figure out the driving force (drone strikes, NATO, US Military, bombing hospitals and wedding parties etc). Do you get it? You or your loved ones are to be killed so as to justify more killing and maiming of Muslims with forever expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex. Omar Mateen, who killed 47 and wounded 100+ in the Orlando, FL nightclub has admitted those killings were 'payback' for all of Obama’s drone killings of Muslims. Thank you, Mr. Obama, for all that Hope and Change that you have brought.
The M.O. during the Indian wars was identical ... genocide of an Indian village followed by revenge killings and rapes of the Whites, then followed by regional Calvary genocide. Destruction of a hamlet in Pakistan followed by an airline bombing. Matt Taibbi has written extensively in Rolling Stone on the drone slaughter of innocents and how this plays into the Perpetual War on Terror.
War, all wars, are sold as defense but that is a myth. In reality, war is all about profits and never about defense. Same today as in 1870 where the Indian agents and suppliers of military materiel profited handsomely .. as did Americans per say who got millions of acres of "free land". It is all documented in this marvelous book. The more things change the more they stay the same.
There is an essay on the Internet “All Wars are Banker’s Wars” ... read it after you have read this magnificent book by Dee Brown and you will have a deep understanding of how war (& American Foreign Policy) works.
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