Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

Oct 2009 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Grover Gardner

About this audiobook

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the series of battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them and their people demoralized and decimated.

A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was won—and lost. It tells a story that should not be forgotten and so must be retold from time to time.

Ratings and reviews

Book contains a lot of factual information, but author Dee Brown seems to ignore a lot of atrocities committed by the natives and focuses more on the atrocities committed by the whites. "The Earth Is Weeping" is a little more impartial, in my opinion.

This book gives us the true history of the Native Amerian through his eyes, most dont believe that, but they saw their way of life taken from them, they saw their religion made fun of, their children killed, their women raped, you put a bear or a wolf or better yet, a white man in a corner, how will either of those 3 come out fighting, the same way a Indian did and would, it's time to remove the resverations from the land and allow the Native American his or her God Given Right to live free upon this land

Unbelievably accurate and tragic history that is to never be forgotten lest we repeat it.

About the author

Dorris Alexander “Dee” Brown (1908–2002), born in Alberta, Louisiana, grew up in Arkansas, where he became friends with Native Americans. He worked as a reporter in Harrison, Arkansas, before becoming a teacher and librarian. He is the author of over twenty-five books on the American West and the Civil War.

Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981. He's been named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" as well as a "Golden Voice" by AudioFile magazine. Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist. In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him "Audiobook Narrator of the Year." Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams. Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules. Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master's degree in Acting from George Washington University. He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter.