Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Dee Brown

Brown's history of the destruction of Native American peoples and cultures in the American West between 1860 and 1890 was written from indigenous sources and perspectives at a time when the subject was almost entirely absent from mainstream American historiography. The book proceeds tribe by tribe, campaign by campaign, treaty by treaty — showing the systematic nature of what was done, and who did it, in a register that combines documentary evidence with moral clarity.