Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, written by Dee Alexander Brown, is a great novel that shows the attempted genocide of Indian nations. Many of the young Indian children were stolen and forced into slavery. Most of the children died along their journey. At the battle of Wounded Knee almost four-fifths of Native lands were taken and most of the native people slaughtered or thrown into slavery. Natives that were put in to slavery were counted everyday to make sure no one had escaped or rebelled. If this were to occur the Natives would be savagely beaten.
During the bloody battles and harsh time periods the savage atrocities were blamed on the Indians, when in truth it was the white man that was causing and doing all of these brutal things. A white man paid up to twenty-five dollars for an Indians scalp. They hung and honor the scalps as trophies. The whites were also responsible for the first mutilation of corpses. The Natives soon followed for interrogation purposes. The natives were greatly influenced by these new teachings, they saw the harsh consequences on the battlefield and in slavery of how they would be treated if they weren’t to obey and go along with the new ways of life.
This lead to the Natives killing Natives so they could have scalps as trophies. This was all brought on by the white man and helped lead to the abolishing of the native people. The Natives experienced a lot of racism for many reasons. One the Indians race was easily noticed because of their skin color. Two they were prohibited from many jobs and professions. For example a well- educated Indian man by the name of El Parker was unable to join the union army to fight in the Civil War until he gained aid from U.
The Essay on Native American Slavery 1800
The constitution of the United States reads; We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1830 s, there existed a deep division among the nations white population regarding Native Americans. In their dealings with Native ...
S. Grant. During these periods most of the Indian rights were revoked, and since many were forced into slavery they had no right at all. This book shows all of the harsh reality of the Indians lives and how badly corrupted the Indians were by the new settlers and harsh and brutal wars. This book was very disturbing and showed factual accounts of attempted genocide and constant lies that lead to bloody wars and slaughtering of these great Indian tribes.
As you can see many of the tribes were corrupted and killed by new settlers. It is said that more than four fifths of the native land was lost and stained red with blood because of all the Native killings. Many people believe that if you don’t study history you are doomed to repeat it. I feel that this could never occur to this brutality again because there is not enough Indian lands left to massacre. All of this leads me to believe that we need not to develop Indian lands but stand back and watch them grow..
