Dorris Alexander "Dee" 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 violent relationship between Native Americans and American expansionism. This work led to further appreciation of the Native American culture by the common American, and caused a new look at the history of the American west, from the Native American point of view.^[1] February 29 is a day added into a leap year of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 346th day of the year (347th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... February 29 is a day added into a leap year of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 346th day of the year (347th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This article is about the occupation of studying history. ... Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970). ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ... The Western United States, also referred to as the American West or simply The West, traditionally refers to the region constituting the westernmost states of the United States (see geographical terminology section for further discussion of these terms). ... This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ...

Born in Alberta, Louisiana, Brown grew up in Ouachita County, Arkansas and Little Rock, where he became friends with many Native Americans who made him realize that the portrayals of their people in American movies was not the true story. He worked as a reporter in Harrison, Arkansas, then became a teacher and librarian. This article is about the U.S. State. ... Ouachita County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. ... Little Rock redirects here. ... This article is about journalistic reporters. ... Harrison is a city in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. ... For university teachers, see professor. ... The Librarian, a 1556 painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo A librarian is an information professional trained in library science and information science: the organization and management of information and service to people with information needs. ...

He was a librarian for the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1934 to 1942 and for the United States Department of War after serving in the army in World War II. From 1948 to 1972, he was an agriculture librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he had gained a master's degree in library science and became professor. In 1973, he retired back in Arkansas and devoted his time to writing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, also called the Agriculture Department, or USDA, is a Cabinet department of the United States Federal Government. ... Line drawing of the Department of Wars seal. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... A Corner of Main Quad The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, or simply Illinois), is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious campus in the University of Illinois system. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Library science is an interdisciplinary science incorporating the humanities, law and applied science to study topics related to libraries, the collection, organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources, and the political economy of information. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: [1]) varies. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ...

When "Bury My Heart" was published, many readers assumed that he was of Indian heritage, but in fact he was not. He did however come from a family with deep frontier history. A frontier is a political and geographical term referring to areas near or beyond a boundary, or of a different nature. ...

He wrote several novels during his life, the first being Wave High the Banner, a fictionalized account of the life of Davy Crockett (who was an acquaintance of his great-grandfather). He wrote over a dozen books, including several for children, before Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee came out. Another popular work, Creek Mary's Blood, was a novel telling of several generations of a family descended from one Creek woman. Colonel David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title King of the Wild Frontier. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the... The Creeks are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee (or Muskogee), the name they use to identify themselves today. ...

Brown died at the age of 94 in Little Rock, Arkansas.^[2] His remains are interred in Urbana, Illinois. The Central Arkansas Library System named a branch library in Little Rock for him.

Criticism

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 castigated the American public for its avoidance of the real Indian world. Too often popular culture accepted Brown's white European scholarship of the past while discounting the modern Native experience,^[3] as Deloria has written "Americans simply refuse to give up their longstanding conceptions of what an Indian is."^[4] Vine Deloria, Jr. ...

Partial bibliography

Histories

• Fighting Indians of the West (1948)
• Grierson's Raid (1954)—about a Union foray into Confederate territory
• The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (1958)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
• The Fetterman Massacre (1974)
• Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow (1977)—about the Union Pacific Railroad
• The Galvanized Yankees (1986)
• Wondrous Times on the Frontier (1991)
• The American West (1994)
• Great Documents in American Indian History (1995)

Novels

• Wave High The Banner (1942)
• Morgan's Raiders (1959)
• Showdown at Little Big Horn (1964)
• Creek Mary’s Blood (1980)
• Killdeer Mountain (1983)
• Conspiracy of Knaves (1986)—Civil War historical saga and spy thriller
• Way To Bright Star (1998)

Other

• American Spa: Hot Springs, Arkansas (1982) - an illustrated history
• Dee Brown's Folktales of the Native American: Retold for Our Times (1993)
• Images of the Old West (1996)
• When the Century Was Young (1993)—(memories of growing up in 1920s & 1930s)

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References

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Other sources

• Washington Post Saturday, December 14, 2002
• The Economist, December 21, 2002