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: Imagine it is the year 1900, and you are an aging member of the Sioux tribe who is writing your memoirs. You want your great-grandchildren to realize the pattern of destruction wreaked on your people (and that of other western tribes) by the American government, and how your people (and your neighbors) resisted. Using details from the image of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the excerpted testimony before the Sioux Commission, write your memories of persecution and resistance so that future generations may learn and remember 1.       provide insight into the plight of American Indians in the late nineteenth century. What was the government’s policy? How did Indians resist? What was the result?