Saga of the Sioux: An Adaptation from Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Author:   Dee Brown ,  Dwight Jon Zimmerman
Publisher:   Square Fish
ISBN:  

9781250050670


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   02 December 2014
Recommended Age:   From 10 to 14 years
Format:   Paperback
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Saga of the Sioux: An Adaptation from Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee


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This new adaptation of Dee Brown's multimillion-copy bestseller, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, is filled with photographs and maps to bring alive the tragic saga of Native Americans for middle-grade readers. Focusing on the Sioux nation as representative of the entire Native American story, this meticulously researched account allows the great chiefs and warriors to speak for themselves about what happened to the Sioux from 1860 to the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1891. This dramatic story is essential reading for every student of U.S. history.

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Author:   Dee Brown ,  Dwight Jon Zimmerman
Publisher:   Square Fish
Imprint:   Square Fish
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.10cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781250050670


ISBN 10:   1250050677
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   02 December 2014
Recommended Age:   From 10 to 14 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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A cogent, heartbreaking narration. -- BCCB History classes and others interested in this period will welcome this offering. -- Booklist A masterful adaptation. . . . This is a must-have addition to any United States history collection serving teens. -- VOYA A powerful work, this book will serve as a discussion starter and as an educational tool. -- School Library Journal A wrenching account of the injustices the Sioux endured from white men and the battles that ensued, based on Dee Brown's classic Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . -- Kirkus Reviews Praise for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Shattering, appalling, compelling. . . . One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages. -- The Washington Post A first-rate account--strongly and ardently written. -- The New Yorker Fusing scholarship with a capacity for writing a story of epic proportions, Brown has cut through a mass of white expansionist rhetoric to give the reader an Indian perspective of the conquest of the trans-Mississippi West for the last four decades of the nineteenth century. Highly recommended. -- Choice


A cogent, heartbreaking narration. -- BCCB History classes and others interested in this period will welcome this offering. -- Booklist A masterful adaptation. . . . This is a must-have addition to any United States history collection serving teens. -- VOYA A powerful work, this book will serve as a discussion starter and as an educational tool. -- School Library Journal A wrenching account of the injustices the Sioux endured from white men and the battles that ensued, based on Dee Brown's classic Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. -- Kirkus Reviews Praise for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Shattering, appalling, compelling. . . . One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages. -- The Washington Post A first-rate account--strongly and ardently written. -- The New Yorker Fusing scholarship with a capacity for writing a story of epic proportions, Brown has cut through a mass of white expansionist rhetoric to give the reader an Indian perspective of the conquest of the trans-Mississippi West for the last four decades of the nineteenth century. Highly recommended. -- Choice


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Dee Brown (1908-2002) was a leading authority on western American history. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was a New York Times bestseller translated into twelve languages and is considered a classic in its field. Dwight Jon Zimmerman has adapted children's versions of books by distinguished authors such as James McPherson and Simon Winchester. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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