Wounded knee Quote by Dee Brown

“I heard him call to the people not to be afraid, that the soldiers would not hurt them; then the troops opened fire from…

— Dee Brown

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

— Dee Brown

Treat all men alike… give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well…

— Dee Brown

“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control."…

— Dee Brown

“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time…

— Dee Brown

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever…

— Dee Brown

“It is too often the case,” Crook said, “that border newspapers … disseminate all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians, which are…

— Dee Brown

“Before these laws could be put into effect, a new wave of white settlers swept westward and formed the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa.…

— Dee Brown

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

— Dee Brown

“mainland of America, the Wampanoags of Massasoit and King Philip had vanished, along with the Chesapeakes, the Chickahominys, and the Potomacs of the great…

— Dee Brown

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades,…

— Dee Brown

“Not all of Anthony’s officers, however, were eager or even willing to join Chivington’s well-planned massacre. Captain Silas Soule, Lieutenant Joseph Cramer, and Lieutenant…

— Dee Brown