When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young.

The book includes copious photographs, illustrations, and maps in support of the narrative and to appeal to its middle school demographic.

― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

It doesn’t cover everything in “A People’s History...”, but starts with the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, when American soldiers killed or wounded 300 Native Americans in about an hour. It is also far more than just a dry history book.

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The narrative deals solely with the Sioux tribe as the representatives of the story told in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, written from the perspective of the Sioux chiefs and warriors from 1860 to the events at the Massacre at Wounded Knee. Respect, humility, truth, love, bravery, honesty and wisdom ... traditional values are a roadmap to career & life success. Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man's expansion. "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee" is a path-breaking work on the Native American experience. About The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
This young adult edition relates the profoundly disturbing story of the plunder of the great Indian nations.


The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.

The “NAPI” graphic novel will introduce you to those same valuable lessons, and help you achieve integrity-based results. It is actually much more than the title suggests because the first 100 pages explore Indian life before 1890. This is a graphic novel adaptation of Zinn’s famous history book, “A People’s History of the United States.”.

Narrated by Zinn, this version opens with the events of 9/11 and then jumps back to explore the cycles of U.S. expansionism from Wounded Knee to Iraq, stopping along the way at World War I, Central America, Vietnam, and the Iranian revolution.