The Indians ended up killing innocents out of anger and revenge. The Cheyennes had raided a Hungate Ranch 25 miles east of Denver, killing the rancher, his wife, and two daughters who were six and three; their mutilated bodies were publicly displayed in a Denver store (Millard, 1964, p. 75). This added more fire to the fuel. Two Indians also caused the demise of a Cheyenne village just because they wanted to smoke. They had tried to stop a mail wagon to ask if the driver could give them some tobacco, but the driver ended up firing his six-shooter due to rumors of Indian trouble.
A couple days later, Buck encountered a pack of wolves. Frightened at first, the wolves started attacking Buck, but every wolf that attacked him was attacked right back. After the fighting was over, Buck noticed his wild brother, who then introduced him to the old wolf. When they met up, the wolves started howling and Buck realized that they were who he was supposed to be with, and he started howling too. Right after they were down howling they ran into the forest and Buck was right behind them.
“You maggot” Cole yelled leaping to his feet “I’ll kill you” (mikealson 59). Cole finds his knife and a spear with his sappily. The spirit bear appears “You mangy dog” (61). As he gets close to the spirit bear, “he flung the spear fully intending to kill the spirit bear” (64&65). Cole was just trying to act strong and tough like he treated Peter in the past.
The “Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire”, begins with Thomas in the tribal holding cell and the BIA officials talking about how dangerous he is because he is a storyteller who has an extreme need to tell the truth. Thomas didn’t speak for twenty years after he promised to remain silent when he was held for holding the reservation postmaster, Eve Ford hostage. He then begins to make noises and the tribal chairman’s wife leaves her husband after she heard Thomas speak and he was arrested the next day. When the trial begins he tells the story of how he was a pony in war and fought the whites after they killed over 800 horses. Thomas was one of the only ones to survive and decides to go fight the whites after he sees his fellow brother and sisters wanting to admit defeat.
The Indians were struggling and needed food. Crazy Horse felt like he wasn’t treating his tribal member’s right. He knew how to hunt and get food. He went back to camp after the tribe surrendered. Crazy refused to be imprisoned and the Crow Creek tribal police fatally wounded Crazy Horse in the back with a bayonet.
They have been wronged by being overshadowed by the white man’s inaccurate account of events. From what we can understand about their customs, we should respect the indigenous population of America. American Indians were more logical than the white men who came over to the “new world.” Ortiz points out the hypocrisy of the white men for regarding the natives “as without any laws or government” when the white men themselves were “people who ignored their own laws and governments” (Ortiz
This book includes a bibliography and was written in a cluttered chronological manner which covers the time prior to the murder of young Emmitt in 1955 up to the repercussions in 1956 along with various recollections throughout the passage. This passage covers the story of a young black boy named Emmett Till who, from the north, visits his uncle and cousins in the south. During the visit he most certainly surpassed his boundaries when he whistled, the two note wolfs whistle, and made some remarks directed at a white woman. In turn the boy was brutally beaten and murdered by two white men, the white woman’s husband and his half-brother, who found the events that just took place to be completely atrocious and worthy of murder. Shortly after his mangled body was exhumed from the Tallahatchie River and was nothing less than a shock to the community as a whole.
In 1847, the Cayuse attacked the mission, killing the Whitemans and other Whites. The attack happened after a measles
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.
It was January 23, 1870 and 200 U.S. cavalrymen lay spread around the Marias River in Montana near by the large campsite of the Piegan leader Heavy Runner. The camp was surrounded by the cavalries and the Indians were defenseless since their warriors and strong man were away hunting. A scout, Joe Cobell, fired the first shot, dropping Heavy Runner. “This was the beginning of the greatest slaughter of Indians ever made by U.S. troops” (Weiser NP). About 200 Piegans, most of them either elderly or women and children, were killed by the harsh Army's Springfield rifles.