Brown Dee - The Native American Experience

The Native American Experience

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Marys Blood

Dee Brown

CONTENTS

I. April:
MOON WHEN THE GEESE LAY EGGS

II. May:
PLANTING MOON

III. June:
MOON WHEN THE GREEN GRASS IS UP

IV. July:
MOON WHEN THE CHOKECHERRIES ARE RIPE

V. August:
MOON WHEN THE GEESE SHED THEIR FEATHERS

VI. September:
DRYING GRASS MOON

VII. October:
HARVEST MOON

VIII. November:
DEER RUTTING MOON

IX. December:
MOON WHEN THE DEER SHED THEIR HORNS

X. January
MOON OF STRONG COLD

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This collection includes a work of fiction, in which names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee copyright 1970 by Dee Brown

The Fetterman Massacre copyright 1962 by Dee Brown

Creek Marys Blood copyright 1980 by Dee Brown

Cover design by Itzy Ramirez

ISBN: 978-1-5040-4958-0

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For Nicolas Brave Wolf

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

AN ANCIENT TRADITION TELLS us that the interval between the birth of the parents and the arrival of their first offspring averages thirty years. We call that a generation. Thirty years ago, early in 1971, this book was born. And so now it is beginning its second generation.

As the first generation ends, it is almost a clich to say that enormous changes have occurred during the time that has passed. Yet vast changes certainly have affected the present-day descendants of the old tribal prophets whose stories are told in these pages.

During the past generation, some tribal reservations have prospered, others have not. There are now, and probably always will be, disagreements within tribes as to the direction their people should take. In spite of the many personal frustrations and difficulties young seekers of knowledge experience, it is no longer unusual to meet American-Indian lawyers, physicians, college professors, computer specialists, artists, writers, or members of almost any other profession or trade. Yet on some reservations there is still a shortage of proper places in which to live. And the county with the deepest poverty in the United States is still a tribal reservation.