so in terms of indian affairs, history has how our present author feels as a continuing of dee brown, a special set of highlighted issues of the women, indian women and what is going on with -- >> host: denice, i'm going to cut you off there that's a lot to work with. mr. treuer, go. >> guest: i think you're asking how my book is related to dee brown's book. >> host: that was the original question. >> guest: dee brown's book, his focuses on the plains wars and he starts like he says in 1850 and end inside 1890 where as i mentioned he says, native american life, the culture and civilization was destroyed mitchell book starts in 1890 in the year that dee brown's left off with the opposite thesis. that 1890 was not the ennorth the owned of temperature culture or civilization or communesle might have ban low point from which we have been emerging ever since. 1890, our populations were the lowest they'd had ever been, fewer than 200,000 native people left in the united states. now there are over 3 million. our land base was the smallest it had ever been, it has since regrown. our communes

so in terms of indian affairs, history has how our present author feels as a continuing of dee brown, a special set of highlighted issues of the women, indian women and what is going on with -- >> host: denice, i'm going to cut you off there that's a lot to work with. mr. treuer, go. >> guest: i think you're asking how my book is related to dee brown's book. >> host: that was the original question. >> guest: dee brown's book, his focuses on the plains wars and he starts like he says in 1850 and end inside 1890 where as i mentioned he says, native american life, the culture and civilization was destroyed mitchell book starts in 1890 in the year that dee brown's left off with the opposite thesis. that 1890 was not the ennorth the owned of temperature culture or civilization or communesle might have ban low point from which we have been emerging ever since. 1890, our populations were the lowest they'd had ever been, fewer than 200,000 native people left in the united states. now there are over 3 million. our land base was the smallest it had ever been, it has since regrown. our communes