Why The Indians In Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

If we both remember correctly the Indians weren’t treated equally. The Indians in Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee were starving for several days and different tribes would come in and destroy everything they had. When problems came up like this the government wouldn’t even help me out. They had struggled with a lot of other problems to. The land promised to the Native Americans was stolen under false treaties resulting in thousands of casualties.
The first issue was when the Cheyennes had found out that the that soldiers are building a fort in the Powder River Country. A Cheyenne warrior tried to warn some Arapahos of coming soldiers, but they do not believe him, and their village is destroyed by one military column. A group of Sioux chase the half-starved, frozen soldiers of two other military columns and attempt to beat them in battle but overpowered. “Finally the chiefs agreed to accept a full wagon load of flour, sugar, coffee, and tobacco in exchange for granting permission for the train to over to Powder Ridge. “The officer told me,” George Bent later said, “to hold the Indians back away from the train and he would unload the goods on the ground. The wagonload of goods had already been divided by the first party of
They resolve to leave the reservation to fight the white hunters who are destroying the buffalo but are overpowered. Some tribes choose to go back to the reservation, while others hunt buffalo at Palo Duro Canyon, the last remaining range. The Army destroys their village and forces the Kiowas to surrender. “This was how by guile and treachery most of the Kiowas were forced to give up their freedom. For the Comanches there was something ironic in the government’s forcing them to turn away from buffalo hunting to farming. The Comanches had developed an agricultural economy in Texas, but the white men had come there and seized their farmlands, forcing them to hunt buffalo in order to survive” (page