Our Book Club
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
I thought this book was interesting but I'd have rather watched a documentary about it. It was educational but not fun to read. Each chapter told a different true story about how the Indians were massacred. It was like reading a book of short stories that are all on the same subject & all depressing. By the end of the book I had had enough demonstrations of how poorly the whites treated them. Do I think the Indians were treated unfairly? Sure I do. But then I also feel that that is apart of life. Were serfs treated fairly? No. So my final thoughts on this book... It is a very informative history. I believe it got the author's point across which is the main point. But it is definitely not a leisure read.
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. 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. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition -- published in both hardcover and paperback -- Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.
Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the 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 changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.
