Indians

Taylor Koch
Paper #1
9/15/2011
The Indian manage
In the book Bury My heart at wound Knee, Dee Brown writes about the struggles and the violent attacks the Indians continually faced. Indians persistently certain the white people and wanted to make peace nonwithstanding the white people continually deceived the Indians by taking their land, destroying their villages, and savagely murdering their people. The Indians wanted peace but knew it wasnt an option, so they had no other choice but to fight the white work force to be taken seriously and to get the land that was unfeignedly theirs.
During 1851, at Fort Larmie the capital of Wyomings, Crow, Arapahos, and Sioux met with representatives to let the Americans construct roads and military bases along their land. The treaty read: to maintain good religious belief and friendship in all their mutual intercourse, and to make an efficacious lasting peace, (Pg.68, Brown). This treaty like so many others was not upheld by the American government. During the Pikes Peak deluxe rush of 1858 brought thousands of white miners to dig gold out the Indian Territory. The miners started to stay in the Platte Valley and started claiming lands that were the Cheyennes and the Arapahos.



The Cheyennes and Arapahos motionlessness remained peaceful toward white people, even though they had broken the treaty. In 1861 there was a new treaty making at Fort Wise. During this treaty meeting only six Indian chiefs signed for this new treaty (Pg. 72 Brown). Sometime later non-white Kettle and Lean Bear were invited to go to chapiter D.C. to visit President Lincoln. During this meeting President Lincoln gave medals to the chiefs, and Colonel Greenwood gave Black Kettle an American flag. Greenwood promised that if Black Kettle flew the flag preceding(prenominal) him no soldiers would attack him (Pg. 79 Brown).
On November 29, 1964 the Sand creek Massacre transpired, and the Cheyennes and Arapahos were brutally attack by soldiers (Pg. 80 Brown). Hundreds of Cheyenne women...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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