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A review by creolelitbelle
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

Dense reading material with heavy subjects. This is the history that schooled do not typically teach students in K-12 US education but the deeper history that we should grow up learning and understanding to know the true foundation of our present country. A line that stuck out to me and enshrines the essence of the treatment towards indigenous tribes in the current US is - "Unfortunately for you, gold has been found on your land." As long as the natives' lands might have a benefit to the Americans, the government threw treaties out the window and stole more land. Everyone should read at least excerpts from this book and not only have a basic idea of what the Trail of Tears was.

I listened got he audiobook narrated by Grover Gardner, who has a fantastic storytelling voice and skills. The 40th anniversary edition of the book in hardcover also has many amazing illustrations and historical write-ups from outside contributors. I'm stunned by the beautiful illustrations and plan to read all the contributions of history to get a fuller picture of the events.
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