Title Page: "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970). First edition
“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” covers the history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century. The book expresses details of the history of American expansionism from a point of view that is critical of its effects on Native Americans. Published at a time of increasing American Indian activism, the book has never gone out of print and has been translated into 17 languages.
The title of the book is taken from the final phrase of a twentieth-century poem titled “American Names” by Stephen Vincent Benet. The full quotation – “I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.” Although Benet’s poem is not about the plight of Native Americans, “Wounded Knee” was the location of the last major confrontation between the U.S. Army and Native Americans. It is also the vicinity of where Crazy Horse’s parents buried his heart and some of his bones after his murder in 1877. [Source: Wikipedia]
Title Page: "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970). First edition
“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” covers the history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century. The book expresses details of the history of American expansionism from a point of view that is critical of its effects on Native Americans. Published at a time of increasing American Indian activism, the book has never gone out of print and has been translated into 17 languages.
The title of the book is taken from the final phrase of a twentieth-century poem titled “American Names” by Stephen Vincent Benet. The full quotation – “I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.” Although Benet’s poem is not about the plight of Native Americans, “Wounded Knee” was the location of the last major confrontation between the U.S. Army and Native Americans. It is also the vicinity of where Crazy Horse’s parents buried his heart and some of his bones after his murder in 1877. [Source: Wikipedia]