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

Beyond Borders
s2e6 March 28, 2026

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.

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston

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