We can see this in source 2, page 38, by the medicine man of the Blackfoot, painted by George Catlin. This has a very negative view on the Sioux Indians because it is showing that they have killed animals and that they don’t care that they wore animal skin over their clothing and do not realise that if they killed animals just for that then their food supply will run out quicker. This source is produced by George Catlin, who is a reliable white US soldier, settler. It is reliable because who it is produced by, as he saw a lot of things that the Sioux Indians did. It is also unreliable because this is a painting of what they were when they were in a ceremony not there everyday life.
Billy had learned a lot about nature and life and the Indian could see it. He told him not to keep it to himself and share it with others. Billy thought he was going to arrive home and find everything the way he had left it, but the house was empty and there was no trace of his parents or his brother, Boyd. After finding out his parents had been murdered by two Indians he went for his brother and wanted to return to Mexico to find his fathers horses and seek revenge on the Indians who had killed his parents. Billy wants to find peace within him and the only way he can have it is to have revenge on the Indians who killed his parents.
In Book Two: A Broken Country there are relationships formed and then there are relationships full of hatred. The Indian tribes of the American West and the New Mexicans never got along. The Indian tribe, the Navajos, and the New Mexicans were the main enemies throughout the book. The Navajos would steal animals from the New Mexicans all the time; however the New Mexicans would take Navajo Indians and use them as slaves (157-158). It was said that the Navajos were better at stealing animals and the New Mexicans were better at stealing people (159).
However, after analyzing the full text, Mari Sandoz’s representation of Crazy Horse is more than just the basic story about the government pushing the Indians from their homeland and confining them to designating areas. There is a direct parallel to our current governmental situation, as elected officials push their way into areas they should not go and do not deserve to be. Furthermore, we have a greater problem in that there really is a lack of a Crazy Horse in our times to fight back. As I think more, though, I laugh because maybe our Peace Studies class will create some Crazy Horses. This novel is quite fitting to end the semester, because it seeks to teach us that to make an impact and to make a change, we must fight the norm and not accept the status quo, just as we have been trying to
However, Hatch's men were disorganized, rowdy, and unprepared for the move. One company threatened to desert on its way to San Antonio . Tensions, fueled by racism and frustration, flared between the citizens of San Antonio and the soldiers who were protecting them. The troops clashed with the police, and in a mutiny attempt on April 9, an officer and two troopers were shot. This time, when Hatch asked the War Department for better officer, he got them quickly and conditions improved.
Three of Phillip’s men were arrested and tried for the murder. Phillip and many other Indians were upset at this because they wanted to deal with the accused over an Indian death on their land. Soon after this incident Phillip had a conference with a man named Easton and he warned Phillip not to go to war with the English. This was probably the last time the Wampanoag people were civil with the English besides their close friends. Tensions between the two are too great at this point.
expended west. A war between the Sioux tribe and the American government. All of this had happened in Dakotas. Sitting Bull was the proud Lakota chief who refused to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land. “These are where my people lived before you whites first came.” Also, Charles Eastman was a young Dartmouth educated Sioux doctor, helped out as living proof of the alleged success or assimilation.
Mary Crow Dog also writes about the intentional killing of her people this in her book, Lakota Woman. She says, “The whites destroyed the tiyospaye, not accidentally, but as a matter of policy. The close-knit clan, set in its old ways, was a stumbling block in the path of the missionary and government agent, its traditions and customs a barrier to what the white man called “progress” and “civilization”” (Crow Dog p.13). Unfortunately for the white man, they failed to succeed at killing off all of the Native people. When a couple hundred thousand were resilient enough to survive this American Holocaust then the whites were faced with a new dilemma, and that was what to do with the
We were found by a Cheyenne warrior who took us to his tribe. I grew up there; I was a strong man. The leader of the tribe Old Lodge Skins gave me the name “Little Big Man” because I was short but very brave. Years later I started living with the Pendrake, a white family; but then I left and got married with a Swedish woman called Olga. Trying to start a new life, we went further west suggested by the famous cavalry officer George Armstrong Custer.
Chief Big Foot and his followers were on their way to the Pine Ridge Reservation in hopes that they could persuade those at the stronghold to surrender. The group had stopped along Wounded Knee Creek, and James W. Forscyth intercepted them during the previous night. At daybreak, Forscyth ordered the Indians to surrender their weapons and move from the "zone of military operations" to trains that would take them away. The medicine man of the tribe, Yellow Bird, began urging the tribe to defy the demands of Forscyth, and one Indian, Black Coyote, raised his newly bought rifle and declared that he would not give it up. When Forscyth's troops surrounded Black Coyote to disarm the man, Black Coyote's gun fired off and caused the troops to fire their weapons at other Indians, thus triggering the massacre.