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The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

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To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature — the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

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The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

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Dee Brown

Dee Brown

Born: February 29, 1908

Died: December 12, 2002 (aged 94)

Bio: Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown was an American novelist and historian. His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee details the history of American expansionism from the point of view of the Native Americans.

Known for:

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
Creek Mary's blood (1980)
The Gentle Tamers (1958)

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