Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American
West
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970
Brown focuses on the thirty-year period between 1860 and 1890 in
which the American West was "opened" to all comers. He relies on
oral accounts, many of which were written down during treaty
council meetings and other official meetings with representatives
of the United States government. Brown assures us that this is not
a happy history, and we need to be mindful that in reading his
work, we need to take a look "eastward," just as the victims
(Indians) in this book had to.
