It seems as if she is writing the same story in every chapter just using different tribes. Actually, she may use this as an affective tool once thought of more closely. She is most likely portraying that no matter where the Indians went, they were quickly massacred. If this was the purpose of her writing style it is properly conveyed, but unfortunately an average student would not understand it. .
As with any book of this genre there is a couple deficiencies but the merits of Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee far outweigh the faults. It is an important story in our American culture and is not understood or well known. By Brown we are asked to confront our horrible past and look at it from a different viewpoint. Since there are two sides to every story, Brown clearly shows us one we rarely see. I stick with my statement that it is not an interesting read but is a crucial to knowing the truth of our past. A story told in just under 500 pages can be summed up by one statement from Standing Bear of the Poncas, "When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us- .
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Recommendation.
Many teens do not want to think of their forefathers as vicious killers and torturers. They also do not want to read a 500 page book on every specific detail of the Indian Wars in 30 years. These two reasons are only a few of many reasons why I would not recommend this book to a fellow teenager. This is a book that kids who thinks there life is horrible. This, by no means, is a bad book. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is one of the most important books on American History and should be read by every American historian and intellect. Any person will walk away from this book a humbler person. .
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee gives a detailed account on the terrible genocide done to the Native Americans. This people are giving no opportunity to share the land, in fact they are ushered into a corner and then slaughtered maliciously.