Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West

Author: Dee Brown

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 14 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

Dee Browns eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth 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 forever changed our vision of how the West was really wonand lost.

About Dee Brown

Dee Brown (1908-2002) was a celebrated author of both fiction and nonfiction, whose classic study Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is widely credited with exposing the systematic destruction of American Indian tribes to a world audience. Brown was born in Louisiana and grew up in Arkansas. He worked as a reporter and a printer before enrolling at Arkansas State Teachers College, where he met his future wife, Sally Stroud. He later earned two degrees in library science and worked as a librarian while beginning his career as a writer. He went on to research and write more than thirty books, often centered on frontier history or overlooked moments of the Civil War. Brown continued writing until his death in 2002.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan on April 25, 2008

I am FINALLY done with this book. It took me forever to read, largely due to the fact that it is absolutely heartbreaking. Most days I couldn't take reading it for more than 15 minutes. That said, I believe it is one of the most important books I have read in my life. I find it absolutely unbelievab......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie *Eff your feelings* on December 04, 2013

Fair warning, there may be some political views in this review which should not be surprising being that this book is the history of a government slaughtering a native people because they were simply in the way. This book is a comprehensive history of the Native American from the moment when the whit......more

Goodreads review by Callum on May 07, 2025

The United States of America committed genocide against Native Americans. It was initially piecemeal; as Manifest Destiny took hold in the mid-nineteenth century, it became exponential. The vast plains of the West were conquered by the US in one generation—1860-1890 (the focus of this book). There w......more

Goodreads review by Roy on January 10, 2023

This is one of those books whose great merit was in undermining itself. When it was first published, in 1970, it must have been a shock to the Americans who grew up reading and watching movies about the heroic cow boys, settlers, and soldiers who colonized the West. This was—and to an extent, remain......more

Goodreads review by Mariah Roze on November 14, 2017

I read this book for the Goodreads' book club Diversity In All Forms! If you would like to participate in the discussion here is the link: [URL not allowed] I also read this as a buddy read with Matt :) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was extremely heartbreaking, because it was so......more

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