Saga Of The Sioux Sparknotes

“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our lands, and they took it.” Red Cloud. The book Saga of the Sioux, the author discusses the different conflicts the natives have faced, and fully developed themes elaboration the harsh realities the Sioux tribe had dealt with over the westward expansion. In the story Saga of the Sioux, there are two major conflicts. Man vs Nature and Man vs Society. 12 infants and several old people freeze to death. This shows how harsh the winter times were. Men killed some ponies, disembowed them and put small children in them to keep from freezing, and the elders put their hands and feet next to them. This also shows how hard the winter times were

How the Native Americans were being treated badly and don’t give up. Around the beginning of this novel, the Indians agreed to let the Americans stay on their lands after they were pushed so far back. They made a deal, since they were running out of land they needed, they couldn’t exactly hunt. So, the Americans said they would give them food and money if they let them stay. The Americans kept up the deal for awhile, then they started to shorten the food and money they gave them or didn’t give them anything at all. This caused indians to starve to death and it also caused another battle to break out. This is just one of the many examples on how the Americans treated the Native Americans badly. A cavalry attacked a peaceful camp. Took most of their ponies and killed a few of the men. However, the indians would not be ran off so easily. They waited until nightfall and took their ponies back. This shows that the indians weren’t ready to give up just yet. Kicking Bull visited Sitting Bull and told him about the Ghost dance. This was something that the indians needed, it gave them hope. This just shows how the indians didn’t want to give in. Sitting Bull was shot and killed when the Native Americans began to do the Ghost dance. However, that didn’t stop the indians from doing the Ghost Dance. They didn’t give up on the

The author is writing about a story about when the Americans settled the west. It shows how many of the Americans treated them badly. Not just the soldiers, but the government and the soldiers as well. An example from when the soldiers were treating them badly was when they shot and killed many indians. The soldiers had told the indians to put all their weapons in the middle of the camp. They did as they were told, although they didn’t like it. One indian didn’t want to give up his gun, for he had bought it and it was his. He was deaf so he couldn’t really hear what was going on. He and a soldier got into a tug-of-war type deal with the gun. The gun went off, and the soldiers on the hill with their gatling gun began to shoot. They killed many indians, and they also shot some of their own men. Here's an example of how the government was treating them badly. The government set aside land for the indians. This land was the Black Hills, they were very important to them. Soon some settlers found out that there was a lot of gold there. The settlers told everyone and soon a lot of people poured into the Black Hills. The government then asked the Indians if they were willing to move else where. The government would pay them for the land. Even the settlers soon started to take over the Indians land. During the 10 years leading up to the Civil War, more than 150,000 white settlers pushed into Santee country. They would scare off any