chapter in this book that I felt sick to my stomach, literally. That I feared reading

the rest of the book knowing that this really happened and that people could

actually do this to one another. Although the book disgusted me after the first

chapter that I didn't want to read it anymore it also made me not want to put it

down. It could have been the way the writer described everything made it all so

vivid and clear or maybe it was the fact that it was so gruesome and real that I had

to read it. Whatever the truth may be I thought it was a very good book.

Up until this class I hadn't even heard of the Uprising. In my impression

part of the book was the side of the Indians while

August of 1862, in response to being tricked and betrayed by broken treaties,

Sioux leader, Little Crow, sided with his war chiefs and the rampage began in

I feel as if the Indians had been changing their ways throughout the war. In

number of condemned to 38, who were duly hung. On December 26, 1862, those

is about. Yes, it wasn't all of the white men who held back their annuity payment,

cheated continually by traders, and brought to the edge of starvation by delays in

and the prosperous town of New Ulm. Even with superior numbers, these assaults

Some common words found in the essay are:
, Little Crow, Santee Sioux, American West, President Lincoln, Sioux Indians, admit reading,
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