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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 1d

New piece at @washingtonmonthly.com, about the Wounded Knee medals, Buffalo Bill's lost film about the massacre, Sitting Bull, and Pete Hegseth, with an excerpt from my book Blood Brothers.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/06/w...

What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill lamented the killing of Sitting Bull and the suffering of the Lakota tribe at Wounded Knee. Hegseth wants to ignore it.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 5d

NEW TIME: Taos, Metta Theatre, 10/19, 2pm: a reading of my play "Reflections in a D'Back's Eye," directed by Bruce McIntosh. About America and guns, via the incident in which Gabby Giffords was wounded and a little girl who wanted to play baseball was killed. Also: the Grand Canyon. #theatresky

Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 11d

Pete Hegseth just ended the medals review for soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee massacre. Yet even Buffalo Bill tried to make amends with Native Americans, making a film about the incident with Lakota re-enactors. It flopped and vanished from the record. I wrote about this in Blood Brothers.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 27d

For 9/11 24, my remembrance:
Shortly before 9/11, something told me that I might never again see my mother who lived in NYC. I changed plans and headed there on 9/10, landing shortly before the attack. "It looks like Hiroshima down here," she soon said on the phone.
www.truthdig.com/articles/911...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Aug 16

UPDATE: THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO A COUPLE OF CAST ISSUES. WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN RESCHEDULED. THANK YOU!

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Aug 15

Taos, Metta Theatre, 8/17, 2pm: a reading of my play "Reflections in a D'Back's Eye," directed by Bruce McIntosh. About America's love affair w/guns, via the incident in which Gabby Giffords was wounded and a little girl who just wanted to play baseball was killed. With the Grand Canyon. #theatresky

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Aug 4

In honor of MM on the anni of her death, here's the trailer for my film "Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt When Hugh Hefner Is Buried Next Door," w/Shayne Eastin, directed Lillian Diaz-Przybyl, produced @butcherbirdprod.bsky.social, "best experimental short" Indie X Fest. vimeo.com/944552498?sh...

Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt Teaser

This is "Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt Teaser" by Butcher Bird Studios on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yes, alas.

Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 29

Yesterday, there were two mass shootings in the US: NYC and Reno. In this essay about the discovery of an old Winchester in Great Basin National Park and our affair with guns, I talk about another mass shooting near Reno - 34 wild horses at Christmas time in 1998. lareviewofbooks.org/article/winc...

Winchester Cathedral | Los Angeles Review of Books

A new installment in Deanne Stillman's "Letter from the West" series.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 18

Sometimes mail is fun! Just in from USPS: the 2025 @lapressclub.bsky.social Award for online political commentary, national, for my @washingtonmonthly.com piece, "Mothers, Sons, and Guns," published last year. It's my second LAPC award; the 1st was in 2013 for nonfiction, my book Desert Reckoning.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jul 17

Donald Trump issued pardons to Joe Arpaio, Steve Bannon, six convicted war criminals, and over 1500 January 6th rioters, prompting serious questions about Biden's use of the autopen.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 15

Star light, star bright. My latest piece, "Alligator Alcatraz: The New ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature," in which I talk about Big Cypress National Preserve as a Dark Sky Park, and how the new floodlights are obliterating #starlight. #astronomy
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 15

My latest piece, "Alligator Alcatraz: The ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature," in which I talk about Marjory Stoneman Douglas and her role in Big Cypress National Preserve, bringing attention to a place that had been written off. @therevelator.org
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 15

The great novelist Martin Cruz Smith has passed away. He and I were in convo yrs ago for Writers Bloc, re December 6, about Japan just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a characteristically gripping tale and we had an excellent convo. RIP Martin and thank you.
www.amazon.com/December-Nov...

December 6: A Novel

December 6: A Novel [Smith, Martin Cruz] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. December 6: A Novel

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jul 9

Whether it’s liberal tweaking their language to be more gender inclusive or Elon Musk tweaking Grok to say more positive things about Adolf Hitler, both sides have a free speech problem.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 5

This is the Pam Houston review in the LA Times that helped kick it off. It was an LAT "best book of the year," and won various other awards.
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

How the West was run

Mustang The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West Deanne Stillman Houghton Mifflin: 368 pp., $25

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 5

Yes. Mine was published in 2008; this year is its 17th anniversary. It launched the convo regarding wild horses in the West and the ongoing wars to wipe it out; the book that you mention draws from it although this isn't stated. You can read many reviews of mine here. www.amazon.com/Mustang-Dean...

Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West

Buy Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 4

For July 4th, from Mustang.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 4

New essay for #July4th on Journal of the Plague Years. "For as long as I can remember, I’ve had dreams that were prescient. Years ago, I dreamed that the states on a 3-D topological map of #America were flying off their bearings, one by one." journaloftheplagueyears.substack.com/p/i-dreamed-...

I Dreamed About the Breakup of the United States

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had dreams that were prescient.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 3

She narrates that section of my book in the audio. rarebirdbooks.bandcamp.com/album/mustan...

Mustang by Deanne Stillman, by Deanne Stillman

10 track album

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 3

At one time, actress Wendie Malick optioned the "Wild Horse Annie" portion of my book for a film. We did run into difficulty moving beyond that.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Wendie Malick to Star, Produce Hallmark Channel Movie ‘Wild Horse Annie’

The "Hot in Cleveland" actress will play Velma Johnston, an animal rights activist who campaigned to protect America's wild horses.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 3

Ohio once had more colleges and universities than any other state. Any Ohioans familiar with the old rhyme about the name "Ohio"? "High in the middle and low on the end"? Now it's really low.

Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 3

BLM but it's a function of a complete misunderstanding and betrayal of wild horses that goes back for decades. This must be understood in order to deal with what's going on. Again, all laid out in book - and at my talks, there is consistently a wide range of people who get what I'm talking about.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · Jul 3

Also see my book Mustang on this subject. In it, I lay out the scientific evidence that links today's wild horses with Ice Age horses, quoting noted scientists. Book was an LAT "best book of the year," praised by Tony Hillerman, Pam Houston, others. Pic of me (left), Frances Fisher (right) w/book.