Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown · 1970
The first history of the American West told entirely from the perspective of the Indigenous peoples who lost it, using government documents, council records, and Native eyewitness accounts. Published the year after Woodstock, it permanently changed how Americans understood Manifest Destiny.
The case against
Brown ends Native history in 1890, at the gravesite, and the elegy frame does its own kind of damage: thirty years of defeat, tribe by tribe, treaty by broken treaty, with Indigenous people cast as doomed victims rather than survivors who are still here. Chapter by chapter the structure repeats until the massacres blur. Later scholarship corrected details Brown took on faith.
Non-Fiction · the Pro canon
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