D. Alexander Brown was born in Alberta, Louisiana, in 1908 and raised in Arkansas. Brown is best known for his writings on the American West with his most famous work being, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West" (1970). To date the book has been translated in to 17 languages and sold several million copies. Some of his other writings include "Pawnee, Blackfoot and Cheyenne; History and Folklore of the Plains, from the writings of George Bird Grinnell," "Action at Beecher Island," and "Fort Phil Kearny: An American Saga."

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a comprehensive collection of well-documented stories of the annihilation of the Indian Nations in America in the 1800's. Dee Brown's thorough research on this topic includes excerpts of documents from the U.S. Congress, Senate Reports, first-hand accounts, personal correspondence and biographies. Whenever available, photos of the chiefs and other prominent Indians are also included.

For decades, the American's view of the Indians who originally inhabited this country was based largely on what the white man's government told them and the popular media's one-sided portrayal of the "Nat

Stories of brutal slayings and mutilations by Indians are commonplace, however, the author retells one story from a different perspective. In November of 1864, about 600 Cheyennes and Arapahos were camped at Sand Creek, two-thirds were women and children, while the men were several miles away hunting buffalo. Colonel John M. Chivington, while at Fort Lyon, talked of "collecting scalps" and "wading in gore" and Major Scott J. Anthony, an officer in Chivington's Colorado Volunteers said that he had been "waiting for a good chance to pitch into them." Several officers disagreed with an attack on Black Kettle's peaceful camp since they had been promised safety. Chivington replied, "Damn any man who sympathized with Indians! I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians." And so they attacked the camp, unprovoked, ignoring the U.S. flag and white surrender flag flying over Black Kettle's lodge. The soldiers slaughtered the men, women and children. Robert Bent, whose mother was an Indian and whose father was white, was riding with the soldiers that day. Bent described the brutality, "These flags (American and surrender) were in so conspicuous a position that they must have been seen. I saw one squaw lying on the bank whose leg had been broken by a shell; a soldier came up to her with a drawn saber; she raised her arm to protect herself, when he struck, breaking her arm; she rolled over and raised her other arm, when he struck, breaking it, and then left her without killing her. There were some thirty or forty squaws collected in a hole for protection; they sent out a little girl about six years old with a white flag on a stick; she ha not proceeded but a few steps when she was shot and killed. All the squaws in that hole were afterwa

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