Come off it. Everybody gives credit to Dee Brown for changing the way white Americans think about American Indians. Hey, I love Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee today as much as I loved it when I first picked it up in college—and that worn-out 1981 Pocket Books paperback still sits proudly on my bookshelves—but give me a break. The real heroes of the pro-Indian movement started the cause six years earlier.   Today—50 years later—let us give proper respect to Thomas Berger and Johnny Cas


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