government’s expansion provoked a strong backlash from the Native American population, the major episodes of which Brown describes in his book. In order to pursue this project, the government sent in the military to evict Native Americans from their own land, and also propagated the ideology of Manifest Destiny, the notion that American citizens have the right or duty to colonize America “from sea to shining sea.” The U.S. In large part, the goal of this project was to allow settlers in the eastern United States to colonize the country and harvest its natural resources, including metal, grain, and buffalo. Other notable historical events covered in Brown’s book include the government’s expansion of the railroad system. government escalated its military aggression against the Native American population, and the symbolic ending of the Native American resistance to white American imperialism. These three events tower over Brown’s book, representing, respectively, the beginning of the European colonization of America, the point at which the U.S. There are too many historical events in Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee to name, but some important milestones include Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Americans in 1492, the end of the Civil War in 1865, and the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.
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