Charlot & Baum

Charlot speech was not only heart-felt but true. He was an intelligent and brave man for speaking against and resisting non-violently towards the whites. Throughout his speech he proved the whites wrong when they called them "creatures". Creatures don't have morals nor do they show respsect along with hospitality to someone who comes and takes their land along with their life away from them. These individuals (Flatheads) resisted peacefully. All the whites did was lie,make broken promises, and treaties to the Indians and request them to pay for their own possessions. How could one take everything from another human being in an attempt to pay off his own debt?Charlot said it right they were merciless cowards. Not only did they take away from them physically but spiritually as well. The Indians carried these memories along with untold stories,ideas,pain, and heart ache to their graves. I strongly agree with Charlot when he stated that there is a God. Each one of these persons who victimized a Indian will someday (if they haven't already) answer for all the brutality that was brought upon the early Indians.

In Baum first editorial he stresses extreme hatred for the Indians and strongly believe they should be killed off. Baum supposdely supports such prejudice by stating they are broken individuals with a manhood and would be better off dead. He then goes on to say they would be forgotten in history and the Americans would receive all the glory. How could one do more or less think of doing something so degrading as this? One has to be completely out of his mind. My belief is that no particular person is better than another, and no one person should ever think of him or herself as being more or less than another human being.

In his second editorial, everything was wiped away from the Indians without one thought of consideration. They were disrespected and called "untamed and untamable" creatures. After reading this statement I came to a conclusion that these individuals were viewed as wild animals who must be killed off for the safety of the whites. He ended with the statement "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it it is a massacre". The whites really believed that they were given the privilege to go and take control and kill the Indians for their (Indians) own land and if they retaliate against them this was unacceptable. This showed a complete act of disgrace on behalf of the American society.