Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West /
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. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four m...
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New York :
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Table of 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 Percés
- Cheyenne exodus
- Standing Bear becomes a person
- "The Utes must go!"
- The last of the Apache chiefs
- Dance of the ghosts
- Wounded Knee.