Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Summary
Bury my heart at wounded knee
1. Dawes thought that the Indians was going to retaliate, Grant and Sherman thought it ment war.
2. Red Cloud have been lied to before in the past, and he knew that he was being lied to again.
3. Because the father wanted him to get an education, so he can have a future.
4. Go to a white school, getting a different religion, get a white name and cut his hair.
5. The Senator thinks that the Indians must be assimilated into the American society.
6. The Indians lived in wooden homes instead of tipis. They were given clothes and food by the government. They had to go to church
7. They couldn’t hunt, they had to get their food and clothes by the government. Forced to grow crops, or else they wouldn’t have survived.
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They didn’t live in tipis anymore, which kept them out of the elements.
9. He refused to live in the reservations. He then left and took his people to Canada. He didn’t want ration stamps, and wanted to give his people supplies himself.
10. Sitting Bull was a respected leader of the Lakota Sioux people, so it probably mattered to the government. If they got Sitting Bull on their side, he could persuade other Indians to do it too. So if he didn’t assimilate, other would do the same as him.
11. You could easily see that Charles was tormented. He kept the feather from Little Big Horn, he still wanted to keep his past. Charles was caught between being a white man and a native person, and he really didn’t know where he belonged to.
12. They blamed the US government for the troubles Indians had encountered. The Indians was welcomed into Canada, as long as they didnt use it as a base to attack the
1. Dawes thought that the Indians was going to retaliate, Grant and Sherman thought it ment war.
2. Red Cloud have been lied to before in the past, and he knew that he was being lied to again.
3. Because the father wanted him to get an education, so he can have a future.
4. Go to a white school, getting a different religion, get a white name and cut his hair.
5. The Senator thinks that the Indians must be assimilated into the American society.
6. The Indians lived in wooden homes instead of tipis. They were given clothes and food by the government. They had to go to church
7. They couldn’t hunt, they had to get their food and clothes by the government. Forced to grow crops, or else they wouldn’t have survived.
8. …show more content…
They didn’t live in tipis anymore, which kept them out of the elements.
9. He refused to live in the reservations. He then left and took his people to Canada. He didn’t want ration stamps, and wanted to give his people supplies himself.
10. Sitting Bull was a respected leader of the Lakota Sioux people, so it probably mattered to the government. If they got Sitting Bull on their side, he could persuade other Indians to do it too. So if he didn’t assimilate, other would do the same as him.
11. You could easily see that Charles was tormented. He kept the feather from Little Big Horn, he still wanted to keep his past. Charles was caught between being a white man and a native person, and he really didn’t know where he belonged to.
12. They blamed the US government for the troubles Indians had encountered. The Indians was welcomed into Canada, as long as they didnt use it as a base to attack the