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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Dee, 1908-2002 (Author)
Other Authors: Sides, Hampton (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Picador, ©2007.
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Online Access:http://www.picadorusa.com
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.