not only depicted the struggles of the Native American Indians on a Spokane Indian

Reservation, but he also tried to weave in their harsh past and unpredictable future. All

Native Americans have been treated with cruelty ever since Columbus sat foot on their

soil. The so-called, “United States of America,” has always been the Native American’s

land but why do Americans consider it theirs now? Why are the Native Americans only

part of one percent of America’s population as opposed to 100 percent before the

European invasion (Trabich)? There is one main reason for such a large decline in

population within four centuries: mass killing of the Native Americans. How Americans

treated the Native Americans is no different from how the discriminating and egocentric

Adolph Hitler treated the Jews during the Holocaust.

Dictionary.com defines genocide as, “the systematic and planned extermination of

an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group”. The Europeans wanted all of the

Native Indian’s land so the only way to get the land was to get rid of the Native Ind

Although the Native Indians lived on their own land, their reservation, they were

Indians had very little to eat; they were even hungrier than “dogs” (177). After Victor and

He knew he was useless and although fifty degrees is not considered as a temperature

She joked with James Many Horses that, “…making fry bread and helping people are the

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