Dee Brown’s 1970 book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee remains perhaps the best-known account of American Indian history, but Ojibwe writer David Treuer has long seen problems with its takeaways.
Federal troops had killed between 150 and 300 people in southwestern South Dakota in an incident now known as the Massacre at Wounded Knee. It made sensational news—what one paper called ...
maps, append., index. $18.99 ... and offers a brief but balanced account of Wounded Knee. The book’s conclusion sums up the past century of Lakota history with references to the carving up of ...