Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 2nd Thematic Question

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West was written by Dee Brown and publish in 1970. It was the first book that really began to change the way that Americans viewed how the American west came to be. It is about how the Native Americans were massacred so that the white men and women could have the land to themselves and in peace.
The Native Americans tried to retaliate and put up a fight but they were little match for the white men with their guns and large numbers of men. They were given plague ridden blankets and were tricked out of their food and their homes. Try as they might to protect the land that they and their forefathers had raised their families on and lived off of they soon met their end. Very few Native Americans remain today do to the masses that were killed by the white men.
Those that were not directly murdered were starved or sold into slavery. Many died within the first year of settlers landing on the terrain because their systems were not used to the foreign diseases that were being brought over by ship with the many new settlers. It was truly a horrendous occurrence. The time a whole culture and race of people were almost entirely destroyed by another.
After a conflict both parties should apologize and make amends. It does no good to hold hatred in ones heart. To hold hatred in the heart of an entire civilization against another is even worse. After a conflict though one party may have appeared to be victorious it is really not so. Nothing is really ever gained from conflict but many things can be lost.
Those that could dwell upon an event such as this in history and be proud that the white men won are merely savages themselves. There is no trace of decency in such a thought process. No race or culture ever deserves to be entirely demolished because they do not follow the trends of the others around them. The battles that occurred where so many Native American lives were taken were unjustly weighted. The white men acted barbaric in claiming the western territory of the United States.
No one party won the "conflict" between the Native Americans and the white men. An entire race was nearly massacred and ceased to ever exist as it was before. All people lost. They lost a race of humans, of people. No amount of apologies to those remaining could ever make what happened right. This cannot be fixed or changed. The actions of those in years past will forever leave a scar on the present and future.
War does not solve anything. Peaces treaties and compromises that come after wars when both parties are too exhausted to carry on solve problems. War causes more issues than what began them in the first place. Nothing is solved when one race of people tries to ruthlessly kill another. All that results are large body counts and human beings lying dead, scattered across open fields. What occurred between the Native Americans and the white men was not even a war. It was one race taking complete advantage of another and inflicting suffering equal to that of another holocaust. It is taught that the Holocaust was such a terrible occurrence because Hitler tried to persecute an entire race. What the white men did to the Native Americans really was not that different.
The United States can not do anything at this point to reconcile what occurred. It is a wound that runs deep and will be omnipresent as long as the nation is in existence. No one came out of the conflict victorious. The government may believe that cutting checks will help erase the past but this is not so. After the Holocaust checks were issued to many of the Jewish people that underwent some of the torture but managed to survive. Many of those people did not even cash the checks and those that did, did so with bitterness in their hearts. Money can not erase hatred. It took hatred to fuel the annihilation of an innocent culture. Everyone lost and only despair can remain.