Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.

• war crimes
• mass murder
• native american
• native american attack
• native american reservation
• 19th century
• indigenous peoples
• assimilation
• early america
• wounded knee
• wounded knee massacre