The Cynical Historian

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee | Based on a True Story (2019x4)

Air date: Jan 30, 2019

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee is trying to do a lot of things. It is a powerful interpretation of the American Indian assimilation policy, but it has its problems. This was a difficult movie to review, because I’m a Western historian, and I know just how sensitive a topic this is. The book it's based on, authored by Dee Brown, was instrumental in destroying the orthodox view of Western history. ------------------------------------------------------------ I made that documentary about the death of the Western genre: https://youtu.be/x6zD1sjnClM ------------------------------------------------------------ references: On the use of the term American Indian, see The Chicago Manual of Style, 8.37. -CMS is the standard for the historical field. Alan Axelrod, America’s Wars (New York: Wiley and Sons, 2002), 241-245, 304-09, 320-24, 332-34. https://amzn.to/2NHcLOa Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1970). https://amzn.to/2vJHe6B Donald Fixico, “Federal and State Policies and American Indians,” A Companion to American Indian History, Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury eds. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2002), 379-396. https://amzn.to/2D4wTra K. Tsianina Lomawaima, “American Indian Education: By Indians versus for Indians,” A Companion to American Indian History, Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury eds. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2002), 422-440. https://amzn.to/2D4wTra Walter L. Williams, “The United States Indian Policy and the Debate over Philippine Annexation: Implications for the Origins of American Imperialism,” Journal of American History 66, no. 4 (March 1980): 810-831. Elliot West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988). https://amzn.to/2RRfV32 ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.c