Skims

The [Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian] skims over some four hundred treaties Washington signed and then violated as it appropriated three billion acres of Indian land. And there is no mention of the series of brutal government massacres of unarmed women, children, and the elderly, including the December 1890 slaughter at Wounded Knee, near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The museum fails to explain that by 1889 the buffalo population of North America had been reduced to one thousand from more than fifty million in 1830, wiping out the primary food source for the western Indian tribes and reducing them to beggars. And it ignores the heroic resistance of Indian leaders such as Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Crazy Horse.
--Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco, "Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt", p. 13