![]() Brown said in an interview with The New York Post in 1971. "What surprised me most was how much the Indians believed the white man over and over again," Mr. His vivid terms are the ones used by Indians at the time: they called General Custer "Hard Backsides" and white soldiers "maggots." The racism and wanton carelessness of whites and the betrayals and killings they perpetrated were relentless themes for Mr. Brown's new interpretation: "The Indian wars were shown to be the dirty murders they were." Peter Farb, writing in The New York Review of Books in 1971, summed up Mr. Brown's portrayal of white beastliness and Indian saintliness entered the public consciousness, the history of Western conquest was usually told from a much more Eurocentric point of view, a perspective echoed by countless Hollywood movies. ![]() Some historians have since taken a more moderate view, but before Mr. ![]()
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