a threat to the railways, trading and whatever they felt like killing them for.
There's no denying that the "New" American Colonists treated the Native Americans dreadfully, with generals deciding to wipe out whole villages and camps, men, woman and children alike, because they were perceived as a threat. Sometimes I wake in the night and feel as though I should suffocate from the pressure of this awful feeling of loneliness'. I see the land desolate and I suffer unspeakable sadness. In 1912 White Horse of Omaha said "Now the face of all the land is changed and sad. Yes, a beauiful dream died there and an utter nightmare took its place.
It was a critical turning point in human history the caretakers of the earth versus those who would exploit it wherever and whenever they could in an eternal quest for money. This book should be studied in history lessons far more than the Industrial Revolution that I was forced to cover several times at school. Our wanton waste, our indifference for each other, our filty, polluted, crimed ridden cities, our utter disregard and violation of the natural world that provides our very existence and sanity. What would they think now, those Indians, if they could rise from the grave and see our great civilised consumer culture. When one understands the lies, deception, treachery, greed and violence that underpinned the foundations of modern day America, one can begin to understand why that country is the rotten place it is and why the 'American Dream' has been pedalled so hard for so long. It's a heartbreaking book, covering not just one but dozens and dozens of instances of genocide as they occurred across the United States of America. I read this book when it was first published back in 1987 and it is one of those books that has stayed on my bookshelf that I refer to now and then.
A forceful narrative still discussed today as revelatory and controversial, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee permanently altered our understanding of how the American West came to be defined. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown introduces readers to great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes, revealing in heartwrenching detail the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom. It was the basis for the 2007 movie of the same name from HBO films. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. The landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century, now on its 50th Anniversary.įirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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