The Story
Product DescriptionPlus de deux cents cultures indiennes ont t virtuellement dtruites, entre le Massachusetts et la Californie, au cours de lhistoire des EtatsUnis. Il nous faut nous souvenir de ce qui sest pass Sand Creek ou Wounded Knee. Jim HarrisonLargement fond sur des documents indits archives militaires et gouvernementales, procsverbaux des traits, rcits de premire main... , ce document exceptionnel retrace, de 1860 1890, les tapes qui ont dtermin La Conqute de lOuest. De la Longue Marche des Navajos au massacre de Wounded Knee, il se fait ici la chronique de la dpossession des Indiens de leurs terres, leur libert, au nom de lexpansion amricaine. Si lHistoire a souvent t crite du point de vue des vainqueurs, Enterre mon coeur donne la parole aux vaincus, de Cochise Crazy Horse, de Sitting Bull Geronimo, et compose un chant tragique et inoubliable. Publi pour la premire fois en 1970 aux tatsUnis, traduit dans le monde entier, o il sest vendu plus de six millions dexemplaires, Enterre mon coeur Wounded Knee est devenu un classique. La prsente dition, totalement remanie, a fait lobjet dune nouvelle traduction.About the AuthorDorris Alexander Dee Brown (1908 2002) was a celebrated author of both fiction and nonfiction, whose classic study Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is widely credited with exposing the systematic destruction of American Indian tribes to a world audience. Brown was born in Louisiana and grew up in Arkansas. He worked as a reporter and a printer before enrolling at Arkansas State Teachers College, where he met his future wife, Sally Stroud. He later earned two degrees in library science, and worked as a librarian while beginning his career as a writer. He went on to research and write more than thirty books, often centered on frontier history or overlooked moments of the Civil War. Brown continued writing until his death in 2002.
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Product DescriptionPlus de deux cents cultures indiennes ont t virtuellement dtruites, entre le Massachusetts et la Californie, au cours de lhistoire des EtatsUnis. Il nous faut nous souvenir de ce qui sest pass Sand Creek ou Wounded Knee. Jim HarrisonLargement fond sur des documents indits archives militaires et gouvernementales, procsverbaux des traits, rcits de premire main... , ce document exceptionnel retrace, de 1860 1890, les tapes qui ont dtermin La Conqute de lOuest. De la Longue Marche des Navajos au massacre de Wounded Knee, il se fait ici la chronique de la dpossession des Indiens de leurs terres, leur libert, au nom de lexpansion amricaine. Si lHistoire a souvent t crite du point de vue des vainqueurs, Enterre mon coeur donne la parole aux vaincus, de Cochise Crazy Horse, de Sitting Bull Geronimo, et compose un chant tragique et inoubliable. Publi pour la premire fois en 1970 aux tatsUnis, traduit dans le monde entier, o il sest vendu plus de six millions dexemplaires, Enterre mon coeur Wounded Knee est devenu un classique. La prsente dition, totalement remanie, a fait lobjet dune nouvelle traduction.About the AuthorDorris Alexander Dee Brown (1908 2002) was a celebrated author of both fiction and nonfiction, whose classic study Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is widely credited with exposing the systematic destruction of American Indian tribes to a world audience. Brown was born in Louisiana and grew up in Arkansas. He worked as a reporter and a printer before enrolling at Arkansas State Teachers College, where he met his future wife, Sally Stroud. He later earned two degrees in library science, and worked as a librarian while beginning his career as a writer. He went on to research and write more than thirty books, often centered on frontier history or overlooked moments of the Civil War. Brown continued writing until his death in 2002.
