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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

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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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Original, remarkable and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down * New York Times * Shattering, appalling, compelling * Washington Post * An essential insight into modern America * Daily Telegraph * Calculated to make the head pound, the heart ache and the blood boil * The Times *

great

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So sad from start to finish . Thought provoking and outlook changing . Not a pleasant listen .

Unbelievably tragic.

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Fascinating but tragic story of genocide of the Native Americans. Exploitation and lies used to steal land and destroy an ancient culture. Like many civilised countries created on the blood of indigenous people. Well written and accessible!!

Tragic history

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A fantastic book that is a real eye opener as to what happened to the American Indian nations leaving some lost for ever.

Great book that I would recommend

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This book paints a vivid picture of the corruption and brutality which led to our world being deprived of the wonderful native American culture and people who could teach us so much today in our current climate crisis.

it really helped me to get a true idea of the incredibly inhumane suffering the native Americans went through.

very moving and informative

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In some ways the book gets repetitive. but that is not the fault of the book/author. It is the fault of the way the native American bands were treated one after another. its heartbreaking and a must read.

Truly upsetting

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The many and varied ways that the Indians are betrayed, tricked, dispossessed and murdered are told in straightforward, non-emotive prose and yet I don't think I've ever read such a saddening, infuriating, depressing, heartbreaking, soul crushing book. But reading of a deliberate act of theft and genocide should illicit such responses. An important read.

An important read

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The evil that men do in the name of money and religion. Heartbreaking and brutal.

Brutal and heartbreaking.

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It is shocking to realise that when this great work of historical revisionism was published in 1970, most Americans still thought of the American Indians as primitive savages. An unholy alliance of land greed and religious zealotry sealed the Indians’ fate. A proud, well-adapted group of many tribes lost their ancestral lands and were betrayed over and over again. What wickedness!

Still shocking 50 years later

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Thank God for books like this to correct the American Settler narrative An incredible history of a dignified and diverse First Nation people, you can only reel at the land grab and genocide of a people who have incredibly beyond near extermination managed to survive it..how America can claim to be the land of the free is extraordinary as it was said by one of their own they are judged by their terrible history ..this book felt like it was going to break my heart and it did but I'm glad I heard and understood some of the real history of the Tribes and their peoples experiences

An exceptional history of genocide and exploitation

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