Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, first published in 1970, is a history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century, and their displacement and slaughter by the United States. It was written by by Dee Brown.

Related Topics:
1970 - History - Native American - United States - Dee Brown

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Chapter by chapter, this book moves from tribe to tribe of Native Americans, and outlines the relations of the tribes to the United States federal government during the years 1860-1890. It begins with the Navajos, the Apaches, and the other tribes of the Southwest who were displaced as California and the surrounding states were settled. Brown chronicles the changing and sometimes conflicting attitudes both of American authorities such as General Custer and Indian chiefs, particularly Geronimo, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse, and their different attempts to save their peoples, by peace, war, or retreat. The later part of the book focuses primarily on the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes of the plains, who were among the last to be moved onto reservations, under perhaps the most violent circumstances. It culminates with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the murders of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and the slaughter of Sioux prisoners at Wounded Knee that is generally considered the end of the Indian Wars.

Related Topics:
United States federal government - Custer - Geronimo - Red Cloud - Sitting Bull - Crazy Horse - Little Bighorn - Wounded Knee - Indian Wars

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Chapter listings are:

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1. "Their Manners are Decorous and Praiseworthy"

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2. The Long Walk of the Navahos

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3. Little Crow's War

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4. War Comes to the Cheyennes

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5. Powder River Invasion

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6. Red Cloud's War

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7. "The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian"

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8. The Rise and Fall of Donehogawa

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9. Cochise and the Apache Guerrillas

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10. The Ordeal of Captain Jack

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11. The War to Save the Buffalo

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12. The War for the Black Hills

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13. The Flight of the Nez Percés

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14. Cheyenne Exodus

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15. Standing Bear Becomes a Person

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16. "The Utes Must Go!"

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17. The Last of the Apache Chiefs

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18. Dance of the Ghosts

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19. Wounded Knee

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See also: Wounded Knee Massacre

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