Dee Brown, a librarian by profession, researched and wrote numerous histories of the American West using such primary sources as diaries, letters, recorded speeches, and transcriptions to capture the flavor of the times. Brown published Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West in 1970, a time when the U.S. government was advocating a new policy of self-determination for American Indians, and when Indians themselves had launched their own civil rights movement. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was warmly received at the time as a much needed alternate perspective of how the West had been "won."
Identity and place. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee details the broken promises, devastating battles, occasional victories, and the loss of leadership and land that western native tribes experienced as they came into contact with whites during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The western tribes are numerous and vary greatly in terms of lifestyle and belief systems. Each group's lifestyle was closely tied to the particular geographical area in which it lived.
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