Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Set during the late 19th century, Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee is a collection of stories on Native American Tribes that once roamed the lands of North America. The book consists of first person accounts that portray the wretched conditions that the Indians were put through. Consequently, many of the events that took place in the process of Native American relocation, are eerily similar to the genocide of the jews. Therefore, The genocide of the American Indian described in Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee is comparable to the genocide committed by the nazis during WWII.
The genocide of the American Indian is comparable to the genocide of the Jews during WWII in which the two groups were separated. Both the Jews and the Native Americans were divided into areas of land and stripped of their belongings.The Native Americans were relocated into areas called reservations. While entering these territories, American soldiers withheld the Native American’s weapons and livestock. As for the Jews, they were forced into concentration camps and were stripped of their clothing and of all their belongings. During their times of separation, neither of these groups of people were aware that they would never get their

After being put into concentration camps, Nazi soldiers forced the Jews to work. At the concentration camps the work days were eleven hours long, and were meant to exhaust prisoners. In result of them working so hard and having very little food they were starved. With the minimal amount of food they were given in ratio to the work they did. Native Americans faced malnutrition as well. Since it was regular for the Indians to hunt for their food, soldiers often placed settlements within areas where wild game was scarce. The rations of food supplied by the American army was often too small to feed all the people within a