In this book Dee Brown makes it clear that the Native Americans fell victim to the white settlers. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is nonfiction, but one would find it near impossible to argue that the book does not have a plot and characters. The different chapters each focus on one tribe per chapter, and the reader sees as the book progresses some of the tribes, such as the Sioux or Apache, have multiple chapters dedicated to them due to their importance in Native American history.
The book begins with the first contact between Native Americans and Europeans, and details how pilgrims steadily encroached on Native American lands in North America.
Quickly, the US Government is introduced into the novel as a figure constantly negotiating with Native Americans for their land or sending troops to suppress the Natives. The Natives, already occupying the land, were constantly being pushed onto reservations with poor conditions, if they were lucky enough to survive their encounter with the whites.
Natives often rebelled and attacked whites, and although they did win some battles e. The whites had more powerful weapons, a stronger army, and the organization and unity the Natives lacked. These attempts primarily focus on shifting the Native Americans from their nomadic, hunting lifestyle to an agrarian, farmer lifestyle the white Americans have grown to know and love.
Some Natives find that they do not mind giving up the ways of hunting and gathering, but most find it difficult and resent the whites for attempting to control every aspect of their lives. The Native Americans thrived off the buffalo, and as the buffalo population declined due to the white settlers, Native Americans suffered in turn. Slowly, Native American populations decrease and the United States Government gains more and more control over the Natives.
Native American leaders, such as Sitting Bull, do not survive the constant conflicts with the white men and other Native Americans flee the American border. The book ends, appropriate to its title, with the bloody Battle of Wounded Knee, where hundreds of Indians are slaughtered.
Dee Brown is clear in his assertion throughout the book that it was the Native Americans who were wronged in the conflicts with the white men. The white Americans had one goal and that was to dominate North America from the east coast to the west coast, and the Native Americans happened to be in their way of achieving that. The whites evidently did not care if they had to murder or relocate the Indians, anything to ensure that they did not stand in the way of the self-named superior whites.
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