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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
"When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us." Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a fully documented account of the annihilation of the American Indians in t ....
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.... you a true sense of there culture and make images of atrocities stick out in your mind, leaving a lasting impression that no words can describe.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee helps to open a door into our past. It forces us to look at the dark side of our American history and the lengths white men went to fulfill our Christian manifest destiny. With the exception of a few soldiers and civilians, the white man is portrayed as an indiscriminate murderer and sadist, possibly the only downfall to this book. This is definitely a one sides story and only tell ....
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