Example
“Contrast the
condition into which all
these friendly Indians are
suddenly plunged now, with
their condition only two years
previous: martial law now in
force on all their reservations;
themselves in danger of
starvation, and constantly
exposed to the influence of
emissaries from their
friends and relations, urging
them to join in fighting this
treacherous government that
had kept faith with nobody--neither
with friend nor with
foe.”1
1Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (New York: Harper & Bros., 1881):178
According to
Jackson, the Sioux were
now on the verge of
starvation. Martial law was now
in force on all their reservations.
Friends and relatives urged them to
join in the fighting against
the Federal Government--a "treacherous government that had kept faith with neither friend nor foe.”1
[Better but
not adequately reconceptualized; Jackson not attributed for all the paragraph]