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Summarize in 3-5 complete sentences the conditions of life on the reservation as depicted by Chief Red Cloud's speech. Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.

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During the speech of the Chief Red cloud after the Wounded Knee Massacre where to argue that those killed were not proponents of violence against the whites who dominated their lands and promised everything but did nothing for them.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. The disappearance of their games and encroachment into their abode by whites left nothing for them than to adapt to the culture of the whites.

The evidence of this can be seen from the text of his speech when he mentioned that government promised to make their living condition better with promised of food until they are able to take care of themselves. The look forward to that but bon came.

2. Our ponies were taken away with promise that we shall be given oxen and big horses to till our lands, but we waited for too long before we saw anything and we got very few.

The evidence of this could be seen from when he said that great efforts were made to break up our customs but nothing was done to reintroduce us to the white mans culture.

3. The old men wanted their people to improve but the so-called local chiefs were planted as disturbers and agitator.

This was evident in the ways Indians were set up in matters of murders and punished, but who set up the Indians on such adventure- Whites.

4. The men who counted the census said we were feasting and wasting foods, but where are the foods.

This too was evident in his speech when he said, how can we waste what we never had. He went on to say, you who has food do not know what the straving Indians feels.

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