The Americans kill defenseless Indians without reason. American troops had arrived and White Lance said, “so all of us gave the guns and they were stacked up in the center” (Brown 442). Then later the Americans, would claim that a Indian, Black Coyote fired his weapon and Americans would open fire and Massacre the Indians. The massacre would result in “Big Foot and more than half of his people were dead or seriously wounded; 153 were known dead, but many of the wounded crawled away to die afterward” (Brown 444). If the Americans disarmed the Indians, why did they claim Black Coyote fired a weapon? And then there could be the possibility Black Coyote hid a weapon and decided to fire it but why kill every Indian for one man’s crime? The Americans
