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A 5 page overview of the events presented in Dee Brown's 1970 book 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'. Discusses the viewpoints of both the whites and the Native Americans and concludes that while what happened was inexcusable, it is a lesson for the future. No additional sources cited.
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deliberate destruction of the American Indian by the United States government. The second half of the nineteenth century was a particularly turbulent time in history for the American Indian.
In the early part of the same century the Eastern Indians had been subjected to such devastating U.S. policies as the forced march that would become known as the
Trail of Tears. The latter part of the century would hold similar horrors for the more western tribes. The Plains Indians such as the Sioux, the Blackfeet and
the Cheyenne, would be subjected to continual persecution at the hands of the U.S. Army, particularly the U.S. Calvary. Brown provides a picture of that time in history which
previously had not been well portrayed by other writers. He explores the lives, dispositions, and accomplishments of many great, and many not-so-great, men. He depicts the Native peoples
as intelligent, courageous and above all else, human. He does not shy away from exposing the deceit that was employed by many factions of the U.S. government in their
blatant attempts to wipe out entire cultures. The destruction of American Indian culture and peoples seems to have been a very real goal
since the first European stepped foot on Native soil. Since its "discovery", most often credited to Columbus in 1492, to the current day the Americas have been viewed as
a place of new beginnings and a place of great opportunity. The Americas are viewed as being a European invention, something that was not even existence up until the
fateful day that first European stumbled onto its shores. The Native American peoples were viewed as an oddity, as a matter of circumstance, not as the rightful owners of
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