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Use Of Brown's Tone In Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

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Brown’s Tone The excerpt “Their Manners Are Decorous and Praiseworthy,” from the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown, is about the Europeans and what they did when landing on different Native American tribe lands. Throughout the excerpt, Brown uses the tones anger and sarcasm when talking about the Europeans. For example, “It began with Christopher Columbus, who gave the people the name Indios. Those Europeans, the white men, spoke in different dialects, and some pronounced the word Indien, or Indianer, or Indian.” Brown’s diction of “those Europeans” shows anger because there is an attitude of mocking. Another example is, “After the Englishmen landed at Plymouth in 1620, most of them probably would have starved to death,
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