Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Category: Literature / Novels | Words: 644 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

This book brings to light, and places front and center, possibly the most significant event in American history. That is, the genocide and displacement of the native inhabitants of what was, or would become, the United States of America, thus enabling the formation of the worlds most powerful republic. It is difficult to imagine how most readers, particularly those who are American citizens, would not have their personal perspective or opinion altered, in some small …showed first 75 words of 644 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 644 total…struggle, and two years after promising the Wallowa Valley to the Nez Percés forever, President Grant “reopened the valley to white settlement,” (320) and the Nez Percés were “given a reasonable time to move to the Lapwai reservation,” (320). Blatant betrayal led the Nez Perces to acts of desperation and the band fled towards Canada and freedom with two large forces following them close behind. Bibliography Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown

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