Chapter one, titled "Their Manners Are Decorous and Praiseworthy," elaborates on the events following the meeting of the white settlers and the American Indians. When Columbus first came across the Indians, he described them as "tractable and peaceable". The Europeans decided that they were superior to the Indians, and that because the Indians were "inferior" they should adopt the European ways. Whether the Indians wanted to change or not was of little importance to the settlers, as European ways of life were forced on them.

Andrew Jackson, who took office in 1829, recommended that the Indians should be separated from the white settlers as the two could not live in peace together. The Indians would be moved to a "permanent Indian frontier" west of the Mississippi River. This recommendation became law two years later. However, new settlers had already began settling in Wisconsin and Iowa. So the "permanent Indian frontier" had to be moved from t

he Mississippi to the 95th Meridian.

The next morning, the soldiers decided to talk with Big Foot and his Indians. They called for guns and arms, and any other weapons that the Indians had with them. This angered the Indians, but the only one who made a protest was Yellow Bird, the medicine man. He told the other Indians that the soldiers' bullets could not pierce the holy garments that each of them wore. "The bullets will not go toward you," he had chanted. "The prairie is large and the bullets will not go toward you."

After reading this book, I feel a genuine sympathy for the many Indian tribes that were destroyed during the nineteenth century. It is unbelievable to see how American settlers treated the Indians, how many promises were broken, and how many innocent lives were lost. I hope that in the future, we will never again have to witness the systematic genocide experienced by the American Indians.

The Navahos lost many horses and mules from these raids. Fort Defiance, an American fort on Navaho land, was a place where many horses belonging to settlers were kept, and in February, 1980, Manuelito led a band of 500 warriors against the army's horse herd. They suffered many casualties but only managed to capture 30 horses. Months later, Manuelito and his ally Barboncito assembled a force of over a thousand warriors and surrounded Fort Defiance. The Indians would have won, but the army's muskets proved more effective than the Indians' arrows.

On December 28, Big Foot led a group of his fellow Sioux to seek protection at the Pine Ridge Reservation. On the way, Big Foot had contracted pneumonia and became deathly i

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