![]() ![]() His vivid terms are the ones used by Indians at the time: they called General Custer Hard Backsides and white soldiers maggots. The racism and wanton carelessness of whites and the betrayals and killings they perpetrated were relentless themes for Mr. Brown's new interpretation: ''The Indian wars were shown to be the dirty murders they were.'' ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Farb, writing in The New York Review of Books in 1971, summed up Mr. Brown's portrayal of white beastliness and Indian saintliness entered the public consciousness, the history of Western conquest was usually told from a much more Eurocentric point of view, a perspective burnished by countless Hollywood movies. Some historians have since taken a more moderate view, but before Mr. The book, which sold more than five million copies, told a grim, revisionist tale of the ruthless mistreatment and eventual displacement of the Indian by white conquerors from 1860 to 1890. Brown was a librarian who was writing books after his children had gone to bed when ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'' was published by Holt. Dee Brown, whose Homeric vision of the American West, meticulous research and masterly storytelling produced the 1970 best seller ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West,'' died at his home in Little Rock, Ark., on Thursday. ![]()
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