You learn how people who want to be left alone and to maintain their integrity are dehumanized and herded like cattle when not slaughtered, and yet these are the people called the "savages," and those who perpetrated such injustices claimed to be bringing "civilization." A powerful reckoning with a shameful part of American heritage a work every American citizen should read and on which they should reflect. You learn how corrupt profiteers in the Indian Affairs bureau won large contracts and sent rotten food, making a lot of money but proving responsible for the deaths of countless Natives. You learn to expect that every treaty will be dishonored or "re-negotiated" to the harm of the Natives. What fails to be justifiable is the treachery, betrayal, and genocidal tendencies that marked the United States Army in its relations with the Native Americans. One quickly learns how the Native Americans are despised and treated terribly justification is never offered for some of their behaviors, but they are put in better context and thus more comprehensible. A historical account of the "Indian Wars," or the interaction of the United States and Native American tribes of the West between 18, as perhaps would have been told from the Native American perspective.The author gives an overview of what happened around the world for each year under discussion, and pieces together the various tragic interactions between Native Americans and the US Army.
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