Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

by Dee Brown · first published 1970

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is a 1970 non-fiction book by American writer Dee Brown. It explores the history of American expansionism in the American West in the late nineteenth century and its devastating effects on the Indigenous peoples living there. Brown describes Native Americans' displacement through forced relocations and years of warfare waged by the United States federal government as part of a continuing effort to destroy the cultures, religions, and ways of life of Native American peoples. Brown borrowed the book's title from the 1927 poem "American Names" by Stephen Vincent Benét: "I shall not be there.

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Genre:

Opinion journalism

Original language:

English

Year page:

1970