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

Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a devastating account of the conquest of the American West as experienced by the Native peoples who endured it.

Rather than celebrating the familiar mythology of westward expansion, Brown documents the violence that accompanied it: massacres of Native communities, the destruction of villages and livelihoods, forced removals from ancestral lands, broken treaties, and the systematic displacement of Indigenous nations. Drawing extensively from government records, treaties, military reports, and Native testimony, he exposes the human cost of U.S. expansion across the continent.