When Columbus sailed the ocean he came across some land in which he thought was he East Indies, he claimed it, and in history they say that Columbus discovered Ameri

Since Columbus thought that he was really in the East Indies, he started calling the people that was already on the land by the name of Indians. The Indians had already a name that they called themselves, in their own language. The Indians were nothing but kind to the Europeans. They did nothing but be generous to them. Dan said that for a while the whites made life a lot easier for them with their guns. It made hunting a lot easier for the Indians.

Dan makes some really good points in the book, the way he explains situations to help you understand what he was saying, was clever and helpful. Like when Dan says that the white people were putting up flags on the land, saying that it belonged to them. "That was like someone rowing a boat out into a lake and saying that all the water from where he started to where he turned around belonged to him. Or someone shooting an arrow into the sky saying that all the sky up to where the arrow went belonged to him," (42). Dan was really out spoken guy, and he was tire of living in fear of the white man. He wanted to be able to trust them again, and by doing so he used Nerburn as a protégé.<

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