Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a fully documented account of the annihilation of the American Indians in the late 1800s ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. Brown brings to light a story of torture and evil not well-known in American history. Many people don't known about the struggles and ordeals that the Native Americans had to endure; this book brings to light a side of history that few would be proud of.Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee helps to open a door into our past. It forces us to look at the dark side of American history and the lengths white men went to fulfill the Christian manifest destiny. With the exception of a few, the white man is portrayed as an indiscriminate murderer. They killed Native Americans regardless of age or sex, often mutilating the bodies. This kind of shocking behavior gives the reader a horrifying view of the birth of this great nation. Each chapter tells the same story, just with different tribes, but I believe Brown had a purpose for writing this way. It shows that no matter where the Indians turned or what they did, they were overp
owered. This is a powerful point and I feel that Brown expresses it was clearly. The Cheyenne was one of the many Indian tribes to have such problems. In the 1840's-1850's, there was a great deal of travel to the west. Almost all of the travelers were looking for gold. This was known as the Gold Rush and it went right through the heart of the Indian lands. With this problem, chiefs from the Cheyenne met with new settlers insisting that they would leave after they were done searching for gold. This did not happen and many more settlers moved in and started to take over the Indian land. This was just the beginning of their problems. Another group that had face such problems was the Sioux Indian. The Sioux Indians suffered most of the same losses that the Cheyenne's had suffered. They had the same problems with the treaties, settlers and with the United States. This problem was the United States' army. The Americans went to battle with the Cheyenne at Sand Creek and there were more than 350 deaths. Not only did they kill the Cheyenne, but they also mutilated the bodies by cutting off their heads and many other
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Approximate Word count = 764
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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