Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

The systematic destruction of the Native American nations of the American West between 1860 and 1890, told entirely through the testimony of the Native people who experienced it — the treaties that were broken, the land that was taken, the massacres at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee. Brown published this in 1970 and it broke open the sanitized narrative of westward expansion for a generation of American readers who had never been told what actually happened. Assembled almost entirely from Native voices and government documents that the government would have preferred to stay buried.