Massacring Indians: From Horseshoe Bend to Wounded Knee politics as they work to manage Gros Ventre as they work to manage tribal enrollment and social services The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee They lacked the understanding to differentiate such raids Indians defending their homeland against invasion from the aggressive decimation of peaceful Indian villages by U These so called Indian wars devastated indigenous populations