and on shivington's men slicing genitalia from their victims. professional historians greeted the publication of "bury my heart at wounded knee" with skepticism and bordered on contempt.olarly d. brown they said had askewed scholarly balance.ct. he hadn't interrogated the sources. distorted evidence and made errors of fact.ork reviewers outside the academy escribed though heaped praise on brown. "the new york times" described the book as, quote, both impossible to read and impossible to put down.more t end haquote.york t the publicim agreed. the book spent more than a year on the "the new york times" best-seller list and has since's sold more than 5 million copies. that's even better than pete's it als books have odone, i think.cholar it also had a huge influence on readers and a rising generation scholars that self identified asd we all new western historians. paul hutten, for example said k was we went to bed thinking about er tho the indian wars and indians one way and then never thought the same way again. end quote. "bury my heart at wounde

they debunked john shivington's story of sand creek. george bent technologist that he had fought with dickinson -- george bent acknowledged that he had fought with the cavalry, he mocked a man in colorado who talk about rebel plots to ally with the region indians. inveterate foes of texas and the arapahoe zen had no incentive to fight with the south. turning to the massacre, bent related details of shivington's betrayals of the peace chiefs with american and white flags flying over black kettles lodge in the colorado troops butchering. bent understood the civil war as a war of imperialism rather than liberation. hadoncluded that shivington wrought the thing he always claims to have prevented, conflict that threatened if only briefly expansion into the west. he said their actions and somehow decide the service and an had dared to suggest a white man might be uncivilized. downing responded to george bent in the denver times labeling him a cutthroat and the thief, liar and a scoundrel but worst of all, a halfbreed. he turned his attention

you can see the lower center itd says shivington's massacre. they looked at this and they again thought that they had found -- pinpointed the exact location of black kettle's village located less than a mile upstream from the monument overlook. the park service then did an archaeological investigation and unearthed a huge band of artifacts which seemed to confirm this hypothesis f. you g look at this map, you can see i- think it says existing marker.in that's the monument overlook. you can see just a very, very few dots nestled in that bend of sand creek and then if you move up the creek about three fifths of a mile or so you can see a number of dots including the plume of artifacts that the park service unearthed. many of the descendants were outraged, though, by these discoveries. outraged especially because the mps seemed to be -- rather than its victims. they pointed back to george bent's maps insisting that bent a cheyenne survivor clearly placed black kettle's village inside a crook of sand creek. and so, if you look at number 2 here, and