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Has anyone read.

 

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

 

Good read?

[zerostao]

On 5/10/2025 at 8:35 PM, Sanity Check said:

Has anyone read.

 

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

 

Good read?

 

The 1970 fiction work by Dee Brown?

Sometimes fiction expresses truth in an accessible way.

 

There is a 1920s poem and other references go by the same title.

 

My Dad brought a copy of the book home when it was released. I was elevenish going on twelve. So, that should be taken into account regarding my criticism/analysis/review. 

There were quite a a few events going on at the time when the book was released that influenced my impression of this book: Vietnam war blasted on TV daily, AIM was newly formed, in the news and HQ was at Wounded Knee, the Counter Culture had captured my imagination, Violence was rampant, especially for highly visible personalities (Chiefs,:JFK, RFK, MLK, Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison)

and the reigning Super Bowl Champs were named Chiefs.

I haven't read the book since 1971. I found it gut wrenching, brutal, exposing the Government and Military as enemies of the people. But hey, by this point in life, I was a seasoned conspiracy theorist since late November 1963.

I remember the book being a long read, horrific, but not long after I put it down telling myself I couldn't read on, I picked it back up again and again.

I realize now, how much this book shaped my outlook.

 

If you make it through, I recommend

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter, or anything written by Joy Hargo as a follow up reads

 

Edited Monday at 04:56 PM by zerostao

[Sanity Check]

7 hours ago, zerostao said:

 

The 1970 fiction work by Dee Brown?

 

My Dad brought a copy of the book home when it was released. I was elevenish going on twelve. So, that should be taken into account regarding my criticism/analysis/review. 

There were quite a a few events going on at the time when the book was released that influenced my impression of this book: Vietnam war blasted on TV daily, AIM was newly formed, in the news and HQ was at Wounded Knee, the Counter Culture had captured my imagination, Violence was rampant, especially for highly visible personalities (Chiefs,:JFK, RFK, MLK, Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison)

and the reigning Super Bowl Champs were named Chiefs.

I haven't read the book since 1971. I found it gut wrenching, brutal, exposing the Government and Military as enemies of the people. But hey, by this point in life, I was a seasoned conspiracy theorist since late November 1963.

I remember the book being a long read, horrific, but not long after I put it down telling myself I couldn't read on, I picked it back up again and again.

I realize now, how much this book shaped my outlook.

 

 

 

A band called Rage Against the Machine covered that era of history with a song called Freedom.

 

 

Yeh.

 

I always thought about reading Bury my Heart but like you said thought it would be nothing but native americans being screwed from beginning to end. And so avoided it. Think I will read it at some point though.