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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West / by Dee Brown.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1971]Copyright date: ©1970Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 487 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0030853222
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E81 .B75 1971
Contents:
"Their manners are decorous and praiseworthy" -- The long walk of the Navahos -- Little Crow's war -- War comes to the Cheyennes -- Powder River invasion -- Red Cloud's war -- "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" -- The rise and fall of Donehogawa -- Cochise and the Apache guerrillas -- The ordeal of Captain Jack -- The war to save the buffalo -- The war for the Black Hills -- The flight of the Nez Perces -- Cheyenne exodus -- Standing Bear becomes a person -- "The Utes must go!" -- The last of the Apache chiefs -- Dance of the ghosts -- Wounded Knee.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Books Books St. Thomas Becket Library General 970.5 BRO Available 1878

Book and jacket design by Winston Potter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-473) and index.

"Their manners are decorous and praiseworthy" -- The long walk of the Navahos -- Little Crow's war -- War comes to the Cheyennes -- Powder River invasion -- Red Cloud's war -- "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" -- The rise and fall of Donehogawa -- Cochise and the Apache guerrillas -- The ordeal of Captain Jack -- The war to save the buffalo -- The war for the Black Hills -- The flight of the Nez Perces -- Cheyenne exodus -- Standing Bear becomes a person -- "The Utes must go!" -- The last of the Apache chiefs -- Dance of the ghosts -- Wounded Knee.

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