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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
1970 nonfiction book by Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is a 1970 non-fiction book by American writer Dee Brown. It explores the history of American expansionism in the American West in the late nineteenth century and its devastating effects on the Indigenous peoples living there. Brown describes Native Americans' displacement through forced relocations and years of warfare waged by the United States federal government as part of a continuing effort to destroy the cultures, religions, and ways of life of Native American peoples. Brown borrowed the book's title from the 1927 poem "American Names" by Stephen Vincent Benét: "I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee". Wounded Knee was the site of the last major attack by the US Army on Native Americans, and is one of several possible sites of Crazy Horse's buried remains. Joaquin Miller's 1873 novel Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History and Helen Hunt Jackson's 1881 book A Century of Dishonor...
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