Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West (CD-Audio)

from kslade

Excellent but horrific account of the Indian wars in America, which included some awful massacres.

from SCRH

I continue to be tardy about reading books that I should have read years ago. This is such a book. I have to admit that I thought the book would be nothing but a big "downer" or worse, a propaganda piece, crying about how badly Native Americans were treated by the awful white men who stole their ...

from Cecrow

The map of the United States is scattered with the names of our continent's original peoples. In many cases this is all that remains of them. By the 1860s, when this book's detailed coverage of their story begins, native populations were long accustomed to European abuses. Even so, those still oc...

from dougwood57

Dee Brown's book evocatively relates the sad tale of the final displacement of the American Indian from the West. The book covers the period from about 1860 to the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890. By 1860 the die was cast for the native peoples of the Plains. The railroad was coming, the buffalo on...

from crazy4reading

I have to first start off by saying that I have never trusted anyone who was or is a politician. I have always said that politicians lie, cheat and steal from their so called friends. So now on that happy note I have to say that I am some what surprised at what I read in Bury My Heart at Wounded ...