Haunted America

Limerick's writing is very straightforward, there isn't too much emotion. It seems like her writing is of a textbook. I do like the part where she brings to point the reversal role of Native Americans and the Anglo-American. How at first you could look at the situation and give us the aggressor role, the non caring, vindictive, cruel person. Then with the many groups of Indians and how they dealt with they on coming white people and the cruelty they used they then were looked at as the aggressor.

Limerick likes looong sentences, she doesn't break them up with periods but uses a lot of commas and semicolons just like a lot of the other writers.

It's interesting how the American volunteers took both sides of the Indians. Some fought with the army some fought to help with the unfairness towards the Indians. Like now a-days some with the war some against our war involvement.

The comparison of the Vietnam wars is great. I heard a tactic the Vietnamese used against the American armies in terms of guerrilla warfare; an American military party would be progressing in some tall grass and the Vietnamese would throw a rock on the other side of them causing the Americans to react to the sound firing their clips and while reloading the Vietnamese would pop up on the other side. This is also the reason why they changed American weapons, instead of fully automatic, they made switches to change them from single shot to three burst to fully auto.

She gives a great point why she can't express emotion when talking about the cruelty of the Indian/American history on the top of pg 430.

Black Hawk as rebuffed in his expressions of surrender like Japan in WWII with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I guess you can see Limericks standpoint at the end of the the essay, I liked it a lot, very interesting. Most movies you see of that time now they give the Indians the cruel depiction.