Tonto Fistfight In Heaven

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Over many years native American people lived such as a very bad life and they were treated by white people brutally, because of their race as they did not have the right to express about their opinions and they did not have the right to choose whatever they wanted too as people from other race for example, there are a source about how the native‘s American children treated in the schools. The children forced to act like white children in the classes as they had to cut their hair when they go to school, and they had to speak English no other language was allowed even to communicate with other children from the same race. Native American were no longer allowed to hunt or to fish. They were also forced by the government to eat grass. According …show more content…

He described the situation of the native American in text which it called “trial of Thomas builds the fire “when he talked about how an native American person were taken to the jail due for holding the reservation postmaster and how he faced bad treatment by the white people and he talked about how other people from his race treated by the white American too. He said that he was lucky that he did not die in the prison like other natives who were in the same prison. He told the author that there were so many natives who killed shooting in the head and how the mothers cried about their dead children “somehow I was lucky enough to be spared while hundreds of my brothers and sisters fell together. It was a nightmare to witness. They were rounded into a corral and then lassoed one by one, and dragged out to be shot in the head. This lasted for hours and all that dark night mothers cried for their dead children” according to the ( Trial Of Thomas Builds the fire by Sherman Alexi (G Wright …show more content…

He borrowed money from his friends “"I was planning on doing the same thing with my half," Victor said. “But I didn 't imagine my father looking anything like a salmon. I thought it 'd be like cleaning the attic or something. Like letting things go after they 've stopped having any use. ”this shows how the Native American people were not equal to the whites and it shows how the white did not respect and ignore the deaths of the Native American and they treated like the death of animals. And that shows also how the Native American treated badly because of their