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Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown ISBN: 0-613-42704-1 Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.75 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Comment: Absolutely one of the most thought provoking books I have read. I enjoyed this book so much I did not want to put it down nor have it end.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Native American's Perspective
Comment: This book is essentially a collection of short narrative about the struggles of various Native American cultures in what became the United States. The book is written from the perspective of the Native Americans, and thus has a different emphasis than many of today's high school U.S. History texts (at least not the same emphasis as mine had). I really enjoyed the reading. It was new to hear the side of the story we almost never consider. I would recommend this book to anyone.
Rating: 1
Summary: The worst "history" of the Indian Wars ever written.
Comment: Apparently Dee Brown thought the sufferings of 19th-century American Indians weren't ghastly enough to impress hippie readers back in the Age of Aquarius, so he proceeds to fake things. Brown doesn't merely "slant" things to a degree that amounts to a hallucinatory experience, but makes things up outright. Anxious to make G.A. Custer look bad for the Washita attack, he invents casualty figures, claiming that Custer killed 103 Cheyennes, only eleven of whom were men! (As anthropologist John Greenway observed, massacres of Indians, in the neononsense of Brown and his associates, are not indiscriminate, but rigorously discriminate, consisting solely of women and children.) Brown either covers up Indian atrocities (particularly those of the Apaches) or tries to lie his way out of them by providing some bogus excuse; according to him, the Sioux's Minnesota massacre of some 400 white settlers one fine day in 1862 simply never happened.
He can't even get the small parts right, even depicting Custer's men as carrying sabers at the Little Bighorn. One can find out nothing about the American Indians of the West from reading Brown's book, perhaps because he's not really interested in them save as victims for his guilt-stricken white readership.
As for Brown's claim that his book is an "Indian history," based on Indian accounts gathered at treaty councils or immured in obscure government documents, this is but another falsehood. He could have written the thing in two weeks, ripping off standard books in print -- including Custer's memoir "My Life on the Plains"! No original research was involved.
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Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Alexander Brown, Dee Brown ISBN: 0805066691 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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