The first theme is that of white supremacy. Native Americans are seen as an infantile race to be taken advantage of. This is seen in the chapter regarding the celebration of the 4th of July. Indians as well as half-breeds are described as second-class citizens. The Kootenai tribe is described as gamblers and servants of white men. The Kootenai always played three-card Monte and were known swindlers and drunkards. The HB ranch hands always lost their money gambling and were victims of the bootlegger. The second theme is closely related to the first and is extremely important. Because it is the first attempt by a Native American to tell their version of the policies of assimilation and how these policies created a society that left no room for Native Americans to enter or succeed. The discrimination faced by Native Americans is described in chapter 6. The Fourth of July celebration is held in this chapter. Two horse races will be held during this celebration, one for the women and the other for the squaws. Cogewea enters both races during the women's race, is insulted by her white competitor and told that this race is for women, then gets disqualified for hitting her white competitor despite the fact that the white woman hit her for first because the judge believed that the half-breed Cogewea was guilty only because he was half-breed. In the squaw race Cogewea is insulted by a thoroughbred because he is a hated half-breed whose father was white. Cogewea wins the squaw race but when she asks for the total sum of forty-five dollars the judge reprimands her and tells her that she is only entitled to the sum of twenty-five dollars for winning the squaw race. When Cogewea continues to demand the entire prize money, an argument breaks out. Jim, the H.B. ranch foreman, comes to Cogewea's defense and is nearly put in shackles and sentenced to several months in prison before Cogewea is