"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century. When it was first published in 1971, both reviewers and the reading public responded first with shock, then a deep sense of shame, calling it "shattering" (Washington Post), and "heartbreaking" (The NewYork Times). It went on to sell over a million copies in hardcover and four million copies in paperback, and was translated into 15 languages around the world.

Duty reading for all good U.S. citizens. "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" reveals the intelligence and courage of the great American indian chiefs and exposes the arrant deceit that was used to conquer them. Strongly recommended for the healing awareness that it brings to light and the lessons it teaches. It will touch your heart and mind in ways that transform one forever into a compassionate and tolerant human being.

This book should be required reading and testing for U.S high school graduates. Certainly the extermination and displacement of the existing inhabitants of America was and continues to be the most significant event in the formation of the United States of America. If one does not know about these events one should not be allowed to graduate from high school to walk and prosper upon lands stained by brutal genocide.

Every member of Congress and every politician who is tempted to criticize Amerindian Nations for such things as gambling or fishing rights should read this book. This powerful and comprehensive narrative is only the beginning of what was done in the name of Christian Manifest Destiny and war profiteering. The book reads like a fast paced novel hard to put down. The eloquence of this writer brings to crystal clarity the shame of much of our past and what reparations we owe the American Indian tribes. Unfortunately the mentality that made possible this boundless and barbaric manifestation of greed is repeated today in many of our policies toward Indians, other minorities, the poor, immigrants, the homeless, women and children.

Humanity does not seem to learn from its lessons. That's why this book, which contains dramatic stories enough to create a hundred great motion pictures, should be read by everyone so we may remember.

"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard.

A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream ... the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead." Black Elk