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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An Indian History of the American West

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

By: Dee Brown
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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 Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions. Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won - and lost.©1970 Dee Brown; Preface 2000 by Dee Brown (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Americas Indigenous Peoples United States Native American Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Scary Thought-Provoking Military Wild West Old West American History Social justice

Critic reviews

"Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking....Impossible to put down." ( New York Times)
"Shattering, appalling, compelling....One wonders...who indeed were the savages." ( Washington Post)
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Even though, 40 years after this book was first published, we are now familiar with the events that took place in the American mid-West in the nineteenth century, listening to this was both shocking and saddening.

It is one long tale of continually broken treaties, of moving the native Americans out of their homelands to poor land, and then on to even worse land, again and again, where they would be unable to sustain themselves and become dependent on government handouts from corrupt agents. Any who didn't want to move would just be annihilated without compunction or conscience. There were a few brave stands by the native Americans along the ways, temporary victories, but these just proved to be short lived stays of execution.

Dee Brown's telling of the tale is well-researched, beautifully written and the narration by Grover Gardener is excellent. Despite the anger and sadness that the book provokes I found it compelling and hard to stop listening.

I note amongst the reviews by our American cousins that some readers seem genuinely surprised by learning of these events in their country's past but then I guess that I didn't learn much about the sordid history and atrocities in Britain's colonial past when I was at school either.

'The Only Good Indians I Ever Saw Were Dead'

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The litany of Indian names give haunting beauty to this sad and illuminating story of their demise. Something everyone especially the Americans should know about.

Probably best not to read this book at a time when you need cheering up.

The author often quotes what the Indians said in conference with the US officials. But also what they said to one another, when no stenographer would have been present. So as a piece of history it would have been interesting to know more about the sources the author drew upon.

Similarly, more about the politics between the Indians would be interesting to know. They weren't always on good terms with each other, to put it mildly.

But I guess these are subjects for a different book.

Sad, sad story

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This is the story of how American settlers (former Europeans) tricked the Indians out of their land and slaughtered most of them. it left me depressed and horrified.

unspeakable

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A sprawling chronicle of the various Native American's and their subsequent downfall. The book is fantastic in its detail and subject matter. Too bad people were treated like this, much of the events mentioned are rarely spoken about.

I'd thoroughly recommend reading it to learn an important part of history. The murder, deception and brutality of America during this episode is crazy, I'd even go so far to say that they give the Nazis a run for their money - although the former regrettably succeeded in their cultural genocide.

Book is a definite five star - equal parts haunting as it is important.

Unreal

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always sticks in my mind heard a saying once if the alians landed on earth they would do want the americans did to the Indians ?
brilliant way it was writen made a history lesson enjoyable.

the alians have landed.

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