Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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Summary: No se consigue en español en la Argentina
Review: Este libro estraordinariio lo perdi hace 20 años, no lo puedo conseguir en ninguna libreria del pais . Por favor si alguien me lo puede vender contacteme. Edgardo Juarez.

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Summary: Why Didn't We Learn This in School?
Review: This book is an eye-opener. If you've ever played cowboy's and indians as a kid, you'll look back in regret. I read this book at the recomendation of my history professor, and i'll never see America the same again. It's a must read. Our schools should make this manditory.

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Summary: Shabby heritage!
Review: Wow! As a Brit., I will never let another American preach to me about the evils of colonialism & prejudice. Compare the plight of the Canadian Indians with that of the US Indians & one can clearly see the blackest offenders. This book traces a shabby heritage of Americans practicing genocide, largely on the basis of what the 19th century whites believed was their "divine right" to own a whole continent. A book that's well written, thoughtful, exciting, shocking, shameful & very highly recommended.

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Summary: Superb and readible study of earlier "ethnic cleansing"
Review: A very easy to read account of the despoiling of Indians in the American West by settlers aided and abetted by the U.S government. Very worthwhile and should be read by all. Only drawback is the glossing over of some provocations and atrocities by Indians that made the campaigns that much easier to rationalize. Still, it's a minor quibble.

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Summary: Sad, Touching History
Review: How could anyone read this book without shedding tears for the Native Americans who were persecuted, punished, lied to, tortured, and executed beyond what humanity should be able to imagine. From the Sand Creek massacre to Wounded Knee, and including the foolhardy attack by Custer at the Little Big Horn, it's all here. From the Apaches to the Nez Perce, all of the American Indians are represented. No American can read of such debilitating behavior by men and their government and feel anything but shame about the treatment of the noble Americans who now are consigned to reservations.

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Summary: Required reading for every American.
Review: Anyone who is PROUD to be an American should read this book. I feel your opinion may change dramatically! We should be ashamed of the manner in which we have treated the natives of this country. Every effort should be made to improve their situation.

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Summary: POWEFUL
Review: I first read this book in 1972 again in 1983 and again this summer. What else can one say. The struggles continue. They do not teach this in history class. This material should be required reading.

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Summary: A must read..........
Review: This book used to be (and may still be) on the reading list for new freshmen at UC Berkeley...and for good reason... It is the definitive history of the Native American's treatment at the hands of Caucasian Americans... It isn't too far a stretch, IMHO, to say that any person who thinks that Native Americans have had it easy in this country and reads this book will have their beliefs radically changed... It is infuriating, rivoting, moving, and thought-provoking... And Brown seems to just "tell it like it is", without preaching or sermonizing... There are many passages that will move every person who reads it to tears because it is just so, so sad...

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Summary: This book took me on a quest that lasted 16 years!
Review: I first read this book in 1981, when a friend showed it to me almost as soon as I set foot on American soil from England. From it I learned how awful the Native Americans had been treated in America, and I wanted to learn more, so I travelled around the country visiting Native people in their own homes and reservations. I made many wonderful friends, including my Dakota partner. The book doesn't lie, I have heard those same stories from the mouths of elders and young alike. Passed down through their families, the stories still live on. Dee Brown has written a book about these same stories, he does it in a way that makes us all sit and think. After reading the book again, it has the same effect on my soul, except now it is more personal as I have visited the places in the book and heard the voices too. I am back in England now, my quest has ended but my love for this book will never end. Read it and start your own quest off, please.

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Summary: Look Down at the Soil Upon Which You Stand
Review: Reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee will alter what you see the next time you walk out your door. It is a book that cannot help but enthrall its readers with its harrowing tales of betrayal and greed. The pages turn themselves as, tear by tear, the reader witnesses the colonization of this continent throught native eyes. It is the whites who rightfully become the uncivilized savages bent on the extermination of a race. When the last page was turned, and the last tear was shed, I laughed in contempt, thinking of all the times I had ever heard people refer to an area as "their property."