![]() ![]() ![]() I finally found it because I attended a webinar sponsored by the PR Museum about the role of Native Americans in public relations. So why did it take this long for me to find this treasure? I don’t know but I wish I had read it before I reached my sixth decade. I love American history and go through dozens of books a year. Few White men come off well in Brown’s account, even those I was taught to admire in history class when I was young. ![]() It is a heartbreaking book, filled with broken promises by politicians and governments and painful accounts of the killings of Native American men, women, and children. I recently read “ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” Dee Brown’s 1970 bestselling book about America’s westward expansion and the resulting near annihilation of Native Americans, ending with the slaughter of nearly 300 members of the Lakota tribe at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890. ![]()
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