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Bury My Heart At Wounded KneeBury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a history of Native Americans in the American West int he late nineteenth century, and their displacement and slaughter by the United States. It was written by by Dee Brown. Chapter by chapter, this book moves from tribe to tribe of Native Americans, and outlines the relations of the tribes to the United States federal government during the years 1860-1890. Chapter listings are: 1. "Their Manners are Decorous and Praiseworthy" 2. The Long Walk of the Navahos 3. Little Crow's War 4. War Comes to the Cheyennes 5. Powder River Invasion 6. Red Cloud's War 7. "The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian" 8. The Rise and Fall of Donehogawa 9. Cochise and the Apache Guerrillas 10. The Ordeal of Captain Jack 11. The War to Save the Buffalo 12. The War for the Black Hills 13. The Flight of the Nez Percs 14. Cheyenne Exodus 15. Standing Bear Becomes a Person 16. "The Utes Must Go!" 17. The Last of the Apache Chiefs 18. Dance of the Ghosts 19. Wounded Knee See also: Wounded Knee Massacre
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee is also the title of a song by The Indigo Girls.
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