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''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'' is a 1970 book by American writer Dee Brown that covers the history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century. The book expresses a Native American perspective on the actions of the US government which are described as a series of injustices and betrayals. Brown describes Native Americans' displacement through forced relocations and years of warfare waged by the United States federal government. The government's dealings are portrayed as a continuing effort to destroy the culture, religion, and way of life of Native American peoples.〔Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2007).〕 Helen Hunt Jackson's ''A Century of Dishonor'' is often considered a nineteenth-century precursor to Dee Brown's writing.〔Jackson, Helen. ''A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes''. Cambridge: University Press, 1885.〕 Before the publication of ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,'' Dee Brown had become well versed in the history of the American frontier. Having grown up in Arkansas, he developed a keen interest in the American West, and during his graduate education at George Washington University and his career as a librarian for both the US Department of Agriculture and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he wrote numerous books on the subject.〔Brown, Dee. Interviewed by Dale L. Walker. ''Louis L'Amour Western Magazine'', Fall 1994, January 1995.〕 Brown's works maintained a focus on the American West, but ranged anywhere from western fiction to histories to even children's books. Many of Brown's books revolved around similar Native American topics, including his ''Showdown at Little Bighorn'' (1964) and ''The Fetterman Massacre'' (1974).〔"Dorris Alexander Brown," ''The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture,'' accessed 9 April 2013, http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1086.〕 ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'' was first published in 1970 to generally strong reviews. Published at a time of increasing American Indian activism, the book has never gone out of print and has been translated into 17 languages.〔Momaday, N. Scott, "A History of the Indians Of the United States...," New York Times (New York), 7 March 1971.〕 The title is taken from the final phrase of a twentieth-century poem titled "American Names" by Stephen Vincent Benet. The full quotation, "I shall not be there/I shall rise and pass/Bury my heart at Wounded Knee," appears at the beginning of Brown's book.〔Benet, Stephen Vincent. "American Names" (1927).〕 Although Benet's poem is not about the plight of Native Americans, Wounded Knee was the location of the last major confrontation between the US Army and Native Americans. It is also the vicinity of where Crazy Horse's parents buried his heart and some of his bones after his death in 1877. ==Synopsis== In the first chapter, Brown presents a brief history of the discovery and settlement of America, from 1492 to the Indian turmoil that began in 1860. He stresses the initially gentle and peaceable behavior of Indians toward Europeans, especially given their apparent lack of resistance to early colonial efforts at Europeanization. It was not until the further influx of European settlers, gradual encroachment, and eventual seizure of American lands by the "white man" that the Native people were shown to exhibit forms of major resistance.〔Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2007), 1-12.〕 Brown completes his initial overview by briefly describing incidents up to 1860 that involve American encroachment and Indian removal, beginning with the defeat of the Wampanoags and Narragansetts, Iroquois, and Cherokee Nations, as well as the establishment of the West as the "permanent Indian frontier" and the ultimate breaches of the frontier as a means to achieve Manifest Destiny.〔Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2007), 3-12.〕 In each of the following chapters, Brown provides an in-depth description of a significant post-1860 event in American Western expansion or Native American eradication, focusing in turn on the specific tribe or tribes involved in the event. In his narrative, Brown primarily discusses such tribes as the Navajo Nation, Santee Dakota, Hunkpapa Lakota, Oglala Lakota, Cheyenne, and Apache people. He touches more lightly upon the subjects of the Arapaho, Modoc, Kiowa, Comanche, Nez Perce, Ponca, Ute, and Minneconjou Lakota tribes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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