![]() ![]() government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land - the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas and Senator Henry Dawes, who was one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs. ![]() Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee intertwines the perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman, né Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation Sitting Bull, the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. ![]()
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