We
often hear about the genocide against the indigenous peoples in the territory
now called the United States. Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr.
gives details of how the indigenous peoples were dismantled by the foreign
peoples of Europe. Deloria shows how the U. S. government never kept any of the
treaties that they signed. He also points out the flaws in the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. Custer Died for Your Sins is not all gloom and doom. Deloria discusses
the humor of the indigenous peoples. The book deals with conflict between those
indigenous who are enslaved and those who are free. It is silly how these two
groups are still divided after all that has been done to both of us. Custer
Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr. helped me to know the modern indigenous
peoples of the U. S. territory as well as what kind of government we are all
living under today.
