i
- The narrator is looking into the Native American past in his research.
- He makes his first references to the Plains Indians and the treacherous treaties offered to them by white authority figures.
ii
- The narrator gets more deeply involved in Native American history.
- He cannot believe that it has "happened again"—by which he means that the lives of indigenous people have been taken away from them in the name of progress and racial superiority.
- There is a hint that another female character is about to enter the scene.
iii
- And just like that, enter Catherine Weldon, an advocate for the Plains Indians and secretary to Sitting Bull.
- It is the fall before the Massacre at Wounded Knee.