Our Hearts Fell To The Ground
Beginning of paper
Colin Calloway has done a masterful job of selecting and presenting an array of speeches, letters, documents, and drawings that tell compelling stories about the Plain Indians in the 1800's. His introduction alone has just the right level of information and links basic themes and events to the doc ....
Middle of paper
.... historical document and secondary essays placing these
documents within their historical context. Each chapter unfolds
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OUR HEARTS FELL TO THE GROUND
to show the tragedy the Plains Indian had to endure from the white settlers and their greed for land and prosperity.
From the slaughter of whole tribes, the out break of the unseen killer, and the forced assimilation through the
reservation systems were only a few explanations for why the Indians numbers dwindled in ....
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