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Essay Archive - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Analysis
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Analysis
Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a fully documented account of
the annihilation of the American Indian in the late 1800s ending at the
Battle of Wounded Knee. Brown brings to light a story of torture and
atrocity not well known in American history. The fashion in which the
American Indian was exterminated is best summed up in the words of Standing
Bear of the Poncas, "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_. "
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a ....
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