Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ( Original title: " Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ") is a non-fiction book by American author Dee Brown in 1970 It describes important episodes in the history of the North American Plains Indians in the period between the 1860s. to the titular massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.

Content

The book begins with a brief summary of developments in North America since the arrival of the first European settlers in the early 17th century. The events in New England, and especially the Indian Removal Act of 1830 are briefly outlined to provide an introduction to the further historical development in the Midwest.

The following are the conflicts and fates of several major Indian tribes of the western plains of North America are treated who had to suffer from the aggressive acquisition of land by white settlers, such as the Navajo, the Cheyenne, the Apaches and the Comanches. Great room take it a Lakota Sioux and their leaders, such as Little Crow, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull The shipment of this strain in the Pine Ridge Reservation, the emergence of the Ghost Dance movement to Wovoka and ultimately resulting massacre at Wounded Knee the climax and conclusion. Detailed descriptions of each personality of key stakeholders such as Cochise, Geronimo, Ely Samuel Parker, and many others as well as contemporary portraits round out the work.

Furthermore, in the introduction to each chapter of the contemporary historical context is outlined briefly.

Review and Critique

" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee " enjoys today great popularity and appreciation is certainly one of the standard works on the subject. Especially in the U.S., it has led to a new interest in the Native Americans, whose fate has been hitherto inadequately or from the perspective of the white " Conqueror" perceived.

Criticism is sometimes expressed the view that the work to unilaterally describe the Native American perspective. The fact that Indians also led cruel wars against their own kind and sold other peoples from their territories, will focuses too little. This criticism is countered by the fact that these facts are concealed in the book by no means. It is also noted that after decades of one-sided representation of Indians as "cruel savages" a qualification was necessary to succeed with this work.

Cinematic implementation

2007 was produced by the U.S. film company HBO Films an implementation for television. The film deals with the last two chapters of the book up to the massacre at Wounded Knee based on the person of the Indian physician Charles Eastman. A German version was shown in 2013 on Sky Atlantic HD.