Each treaty promise, and in fact any promise made was never given the slightest necessity to be upheld by the white settlers, their military or the political government. But the Americans treated the original natives as being less than human. So, as nations, they entered into treaties to provide themselves the opportunity to live in peace and preserve some of their traditional life. Bury My Heart explains the North American Indians realized the white migrants to their land were far too numerous to withstand. But its poignancy remained in my mind these last 30 years. I had to stop before I finished the complete paperback. I first read the history in the late 1970s. Easy to Listen To, Difficult to Hear Aboutīury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown, and narrated By Grover Gardner.
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