Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee "When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us." Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a fully documented account of the annihilation of the American Indians in the late 1800s ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. This book, a work of non-fiction, attempts to tell the story of the American West from the perspective of the indigenous population, the American Indian. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is an important work of literature as it is one of the few books supporting the Indian cause. This perspective is co