“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.” Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee enlightens us with the cruel details in which Indians were driven off their land by the whites from the Indians point of view. This movie revealed the Indian's side of the story- remembering to encompass the pain from their own eyes to ours. Tension between the native inhabitants of the Great Plains and the encroaching settlers resulted in a series of conflicts known as the Sioux Wars. Even though many agreed to relocate to these shriveled reservations, some resisted. It was the beginning of the end of the Indian Wars, and has even been referred to as “the Indians' last stand” in the area. There is always two sides to every story, although it is mostly the battle between what the heart feels is right and what the brain does: logically versus emotionally. Using logistics, we can all see how these white invaders were to blame for the despairing loss of the Indians sacred land due to several obvious reasons that were given throughout the movie. Coincidently, the Native Americans’ illnesses started increasing or rather, being brought to our attention, after the “Whites” had arrived or had been near a crowd of Indians. The Indian, who had lectured Sitting Bull about how he was the preceding leader before Sitting Bull came along (Crazy Horse), had a daughter who was a witness with one of the many deadly diseases that were brought in by the white people. Some of the main diseases that infected most of the native people were the “Whooping Cough” and Measles, etc. These infections were killing a majority of the individuals in the Sioux tribes although to increase the death rate even more, bullets played a major role in this as well. The Indians were not only destroyed but also, betrayed. The Whites had manipulated the Indians into letting them think that they we