Authors Intent:Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

With what the Europeans put the Native Americans through every Indian should be remembered as a hero. Dee Brown is the author of the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. This story was written in 1970, when there wasn't many Indian reservations left to live on. It is a story explaining Native American culture, and everything that they went through after the invasion of the Europeans. It describes attacks that tribes suffered and the deaths of chiefs that will be remembered. This book tells us what happened to them and why they suffer in numbers today.

Americans are fascinated by Native American culture, although the Europeans took it away from them. They are still Natives living on reservations that were made from them, and they live in poverty. It is almost impossible for an Indian to practice their original culture in everyday life in an everyday America. They have to do it on a reservation. The other Indians left live among us and work and live the same as anyone else. That is what the impact of the Europeans attacks brought upon the Native Americans.

Dee Brown's book lets his readers know what has happened to the Native Americans. It tells them why the culture they are so amazed by isn't practiced anymore. It also gives readers a true story of what our American ancestors did to the Native Americans. It gives them a sense of Americans awful wrong doings. Readers can see how America has changed.

While reading this book you get a whole new sense of an Indian. You see knew pictures in your mind. While some may still think that they were "savages" most think that they were victims. As you read about the events that happened at wounded knee, you will feel pain and heartbreak. That is what Dee Brown wanted readers to get a sense of, not only their culture and our ancestry's past, but the pain that they went through. The Native Americans torture, loss and heartbreak.