Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

We all know how the “west” was won. It’s been the subject of so many films and TV shows that its impossible that anyone doesn’t know the stories. Civilized white settlers moving out of the east of the recently formed United States of America, tamed the wild lands and the wild natives that threatened their peaceful ways. These native Americans, as we term them these days were thieves and murderers living a primitive lifestyle had to be overcome by the US military in order to ensure the peace in a land that was theirs by right of Manifest Destiny, basically God’s will. Okay, I’m probably doing most of the readers and injustice to think that many people still hold that kind ...

Good grief I've had trouble with this one. How long have you got? Not long enough I fear. Do you speed-read? No? Oops. 'Cos I've done it again. I have to get serious now, already, because we're on a serious book. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is it. Do you know how the American West was won? Do you even think the American West was won? Because, for a lot of people, it wasn't won at all - it was lost. This is the story told by Dee Brown, it's the story of the people for whom the West was lost. It's the story of the American Indian peoples. (I'm saying Indian, not Native American because that is the term used by Dee Brown. ...