For many years, the Natives have fallen a victim to the white men taking control over the Natives land and culture. Many conflicts happened that the Natives were not happy about, due to the white men interfering with the Natives lives. At the Powder River council, the “sitting bull" speech was given that expressed many different appeals about the Natives associations with the White men. In this speech the speaker uses Ethos as a major logical appeal. “We have now to deal with another people, small and feeble… but now great and overbearing” where he describes how the Natives didn’t see the white men as a threat at first, until they interfered with the Natives land and culture. He also used an ethnic appeal describing that “These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor…show more content… They also described the white men taking advantage of the land, "They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.”, as compared to the Natives saw the land and nature as a gift. He also used an Pathological appeal and personification in the speech describing the season of spring, "the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Every seed is awakened, and all animal life”. I believe that In the Speech the “sitting bull” the speaker utilized rhetorical devices such as Ethos and Pathos. The speaker described the effects the White men were impacting on the Natives and their land. He also used personification, metaphors, and many other key devices to enhance his argument for the
