Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West — When the Frontier Closed In
The American West is often remembered as a frontier being opened. Dee Brown asks us to turn around and examine what that same expansion looked like to the peoples already living there.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West reconstructs the conquest of the nineteenth-century West through Native testimony, treaty councils, eyewitness accounts, and government records. Brown shifts the historical viewpoint away from the familiar mythology of settlement and toward the experiences of…
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