Charlot is really telling these people off in his letter. Charlot admitted that they “were happy when they first came”. Charlot’s people treated the Europeans with the up most respected by teaching them to hunt, harvest the land and they even feed them when they where hungry. As generation past in American the European people forgot their debits to the Indian people. The European began to treat the Indians as in they were only a piece of property that came with the land. They forced the same people who treated them with respect on to reservations.
“He spoiled what the spirits who gave us this country made beautiful and clean”.
To me this sentence is so power because even through Charlot is upset that the Europeans are trying to make the Native America pay tax after they took the land from them he doesn’t become so selfish that he says “my land or my peoples land”. Charlot used the word “us” meaning that this land is to be shared among them as humans. By him saying "us" he not say that the Europeans should give them every thing back that they took he just wants them to be willing to share what the Spirits have given them. To me this one word shows that Charlot is a classy Native American and should be treated as if he was a European man. Charlot's action are better than some of the European men who where being two faced to the Native Americans.
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