Talk:Dee Brown (writer)

Proper Name Formatting?
His proper name was Dorris Alexander; "Dee" was just a nickname. How do we show this? Uucp 20:23, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

yes (Estoniankaiju (talk) 17:27, 23 May 2009 (UTC))

it always alarms me ,when reading such historical accounts as "BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE", to some it was known as the 'BATTLE' of wounded knee, to others more like the 'MASSACRE' of wounded knee,.,.

and while we're on the subject! what is "American expansionism" ? as mentioned on the previous homepage, just curious,?? is that a less upsetting way of telling the story,?

The federal government "watched his work"?
What does the text "but one thing is clear, the federal government watched his works closely" mean? If nobody can explain in a few weeks, I will remove it. Uucp 12:22, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Some other Dee Brown's works
The Year of the Century: 1876 The Galvanized Yankees Action at Beecher Island Grierson's Raid The Girl from Fort Wicked Pawnee, Blackfoot and Cheyenne; History and Folklore of the Plains, from the Writings of George Bird Grinnell Fort Phil Kearny: an American Saga The Gentle Tamers The Bold Cavaliers Yellowhorse Creek Mary's Blood Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow Killdeer Mountain Conspiracy of Knaves Dee Brown's Folktales of the Native American

Poor choice of article title?
Naming this "Dee Brown (novelist)" seems to me to be a bad choice, because the work for which he is best known - by far and away the best-known of his works - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, is a non-fiction history (and a copiously footnoted one. So I suggest we move it to Dee Brown (historian). Noel (talk) 15:45, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Now that I think about it, that's not right either; probably the right thing is Dee Brown (writer). Comments? Noel (talk) 23:28, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed Dee Brown (writer) is a great idea! Dee Brown (novelist) should re-direct to it, to help anyone who's linked to this. rewinn 05:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)


 * No objections having been raised, I have performed the rename. Updating links will take a while. rewinn 23:18, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Criticism Section
I have temporarily removed a "Criticism" section that contained only information about a writer other than Brown. Certainly a Criticism section may be valuable but it should include encyclopedic content on criticism. The excised material simply repeats the opinion of one author who doesn't seem terribly well known:
 * "Brown's popularly accepted opinions of Indian history and customs, although viewed by some as a fair reconstruction of Native history, often were resisted by Native American Historian Vine Deloria, Jr. who criticized the American public for its beliefs about American Indians. Too often popular culture accepted Brown's white European scholarship of the past while discounting the modern Native experience,<Deloria, V: "God is Red", page 44. Dell Publishing Co, 1973. as Deloria has written "Americans simply refuse to give up their longstanding conceptions of what an Indian is." http://www.answers.com/topic/vine-deloria-jr " ... rewinn (talk) 07:37, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Historian's Craft
— Assignment last updated by ACoaley (talk) 04:53, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

"Only good Indian is a dead Indian." misquote
In the lengthy Wiki bio of famed post-war Indian fighter "Little Phil" Sheridan, a major Civil War Union commander, it says that the quote by far most often attributed to Sheridan is almost certainly apocryphal, or at best a serious MISquote! Moreover, it says that quote/misquote never appeared ANYWHERE until nearly a century after Sheridan did (or didn't) say it, first appearing in 1970 with the publication of Brown's celebrated "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". Since many people who remember the short-statured Sheridan's name know only two things about him (that he was quite small man--hence his nickname--and that he supposedly summarized 19th Century American views of the conquered and so-called Native Americans with that pithy and now world-famous and "only good Indian" line), shouldn't this be thoroughly addressed in any coverage of Dee Brown? [signed] FLORIDA BRYAN 2600:1700:B9B0:4500:D04A:392C:932E:33A7 (talk) 15:54, 26 February 2024 (UTC)