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A review by poetskings
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
challenging
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee knocked me sideways. For a history book, I found myself getting shockingly emotional as I read and understood the atrocity committed against Native Americans, who more often than not merely wanted to roam free in the land that they had occupied long before the white man came.
I've had this book on my shelf for a long time and wasn't sure I'd ever get round to it - it's no mean feat to tackle, and at times Dee Brown's writing is a little blunt. Nonetheless this was an emotive plea for an acknowledgement that the white history of America isn't always the right history of America. I will undoubtedly be reading this again.
I've had this book on my shelf for a long time and wasn't sure I'd ever get round to it - it's no mean feat to tackle, and at times Dee Brown's writing is a little blunt. Nonetheless this was an emotive plea for an acknowledgement that the white history of America isn't always the right history of America. I will undoubtedly be reading this again.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, Murder, and Racism