Running Head: AMERICA’S NATIVE PRISONERS OF WAR 1
America’s Native Prisoners of War
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AMERICA’S NATIVE PRISONERS OF WAR 2
America’s Native Prisoners of War
In this video, the white people are depicted as greedy in the settling of the American
continent. The narrator says that when he visits the Pine Ridge Reservation where the people of
the Sioux Tribes have settled, he will always be a ‘Wasichu’, a Lakota word translated to English
as ‘the one who takes the best part of the meat for himself’. The narrator in the videos goes on to
argue that the white race is currently living good because of the greed pf their forefathers at the
expense of the American-Indians that they savagely drove away from their lands. History books,
on the other hand, depict the settling of the American continent as a natural process in the
competition for limited resources. The white settlers, as they settled into the rich American
continent that was inhabited by the Indians, had to use their skills and knowledge to displace
Indians from the rich lands. At the time, the Indians surpassed the white settlers in number, but
