Amelia Halgren’s Reviews > Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West > Status Update

Instead of accepting Sitting Bull’s apology graciously and listening to what he had to say, the commissioners immediately launched an attack…. Senator John Logan scolded him… “You are not a great chief of this country…. You have no right to any control… you are on an Indian reservation merely at the sufferance of the government… and all you have and all you are today is because of the government.”

“Crook was convinced that the reservation Apaches had… displayed remarkable forbearance in remaining at peace…. that the Indians had been plundered ‘of their rations and the goods purchased by the government’ …He found plenty of evidence that white men were trying to arouse… violent action so that [Apaches] could be driven from the reservation, leaving it open for land grabbing.”

1879 - The District Attorney for the United Staates of America argues that indians are “not persons under the law.” 😞

Ours is a nation built on broken promises. 😞