The author in this book use each chapter of the book to discusses this resistance by the native Americans against the united states military projects. Many of the Native American tribes resist the united states military project of relocation. In many occasions, the united states government violated their own peace treaties with native Americans and they start forcing those tribes to relocate and move them to small places where no white settlers wanted to go.
During this period of time, United States was at the middle of Civil War battered and they start to expanding their territory into the western side of south America which was at that time the southwest side of united states was controlled by Mexican American, this lead to a war between white Americans and Mexican Americans in 1840. Reviewĭee Brown begins his book ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ by overviewing the major political disagreement between native and white Americans during the end of the 19th century. Finally, he concluded his book by describing the slaughter at Wounded Knee, which was basically started by a misunderstanding of deaf Sioux tribes and the white American soldiers violent, ignorant toward them. The author also spends much time on narrating the battles and torches that resulted in the genocide of Native Americans by the white.
In some cases, even though there was some sort of agreement between the native and white Americans to live in peace, for the most part, the white settlements decided to exterminate the first Native Americans and their culture. In the book, the author opens his statement by discovering different native tribes and the attitudes toward them held by the government. The book also points out several moments when white settlements attempted to live peacefully with native Americans. In this book, the author he tried to details many of the outrages suffer and torcher during the genocide against the native Americans by united states government. The book ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ by Dee Brown was a general overview of major political disagreement between native Americans and white settlements during the end of the 19th century.
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