Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. By Dee Brown. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970. Pp. xv+447). Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is a boring title for such an extraordinary book. This is my second time reading this book. I began reading this book again just to refresh my memory, but once I started the first page I could not put it down. I was a freshman in high school the first time I …

…this, is a quote from an anonymous Indian. "They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it." This quote is what really stood out in my mind when I finished the book. The only good that can come from tragic stories such as this, is the old cliché that "we can learn from our mistakes". Hind-sight is always 20/20.