Summary Of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Our country has a history of fighting wars, creating conflicts, and devastating relations once held throughout the world. We learn about these events because they have played and continue playing important roles in society; but what about the events that the United States has been involved with, that may not have been important to the world, but was important to a certain race of people who ultimately got their freedom taken away from them. The race we never largely learned about in school, and the people 's freedom we stole from was that of the Native Americans. In Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the author Dee Brown tells the story from the Natives perspective, and really shows how in most cases the U.S. government acted poorly in most Indian related matters. The mistakes the United States Government made, could have easily been prevented if they had considered the Natives as humans. In chapter 4, The Cheyenne, Arapahos, Sioux, and other tribes agreed to let the whites use their land for trade and for …show more content…
The Cheyenne decided not to stay, but soon learn that had been betrayed by the U.S once again. Forced to stay in the fort, they soon found out that the supplies were very scarce and that even hunting buffalo would be pointless because there were hardly any. “There was not enough to eat on this empty land-no wild game, no clear water to drink, and the agent did not have enough rations to feed them all.” (Brown 334). In an act of survival, the Cheyennes split up and go to Red Clouds reservation or north to their old home. After both groups had been captured, they were put in reservations and eventually were given their own reservation on the Tongue River. The U.S. could have easily avoided bloodshed and hassle by keeping their promise to let them leave, and then give them the reservation that ultimately was given to them