Summary Of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

In the beginning times of the America that has grown into the America we know today, there were circumstances happening modern Americans would never imagine thinkable. Racism, entitlement, and incursion were rampant in this era of American history. The people who were most affected those politically taboo values of today were the Native Americans. Native Americans were not as modernized as the white men that came over from Britain, but they were in America long before they came along. The mindset of colonization and imperialism drove the white men from Europe west in hopes of fortune. Native Americans were stripped of their land, dignity, and identity, but with real distain but lack of the modern resources the white man possessed, the Native Americans had to acknowledge what was happening to them and soon learned to not fight back against the immense power of the white man. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown gives …show more content…
They tried to take back their land and just live there until the white men came and seized it from them. They would rather die where they were from than be relocated by the white man and lose their legacy. They soon realized that the white men did not care about their heritage and story. All the white men wanted was their land for colonizing, economic advancement, and hunting big game. No one knew the truth about how bad the whites were oppressing the Native Americans. Yellow Wolf of the Nez Percés said, “The Whiles told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told.” (316) He understood that the white men had the newspapers and other news sources under their thumbs and glamorized the war on the Natives and no one actually comprehended what was going on unless they were on the front lines. No one knew the inequitable war on the