Dee Brown

DEE BROWN
 
 
Dee Brown  (born Dorris Alexander Brown; February 29, 1908 – December 12, 2002) was an American novelist and historian.  His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) details the history of American expansionism from a point of view that is critical of its effects on the Native Americans.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

In 1973Redbone recorded the politically oriented “We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee”.  The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last major battle between American Indian tribes and the U. S. Cavalry; the battle had gained a higher profile in the American consciousness with the 1970 publication of Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeDee Brown’s acclaimed overview of American history (particularly the Old West) from a Native American perspective. 

 

(August 2013)

 

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