Essay Archive - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
"When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us." Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a fully documented account of the annihilation of the American Indians in the late 1800s ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. This book, a work of non-fiction, attempts to tell the story of the American West from the perspective of the indigenous population, the American Indian. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is an important work....
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