I like many others thought that The Autobiography of Red Cloud was definitely biased against the Indians. However, I thought it was quite interesting as to the way in which the Indian communities were depicted. It made me think back to another book that I had read during a religion class and I drew quite a few parallels to this book. The Autobiography seemed to be one big ongoing war between tribes. I don’t think that this makes them barbaric, it just shows that the culture of these people included conquering other tribes and using their resources. The religion book that I had read, the name of which escapes me now, concentrated of course on the religion of the Indians, but it did have a major emphasis on the battles of the tribes. The fighting and war among these tribes were all about resources, I believe. In retrospect, if the tribes had some system of organization where all the resources were shared, the prospect of attack from European powers might have been slimmer.