Disciplined Hearts by Theresa O'Nell I enjoyed reading Disciplined Hearts by Theresa O'Nell because I find that many people today don't know much about Native American culture and what they crossed. We don't talk so much about the history of their culture but rather about the African-American or Hispanic one. Most Americans know the difficulties that African Americans and Hispanics have had to overcome to assimilate to the level they are at today. I think O'Nell is trying to talk about the history of Native American culture because he believes that the reason their culture is not well known is because they chose to continue living like their ancestors and not assimilate into They. It is not out of line to expect Native Americans to live like their ancestors, and I agree with the way O'Nell made the government look like a transgressor. Talk as if the "Indians" are just part of the stories or as if they are out of step with the times. This book highlights many of the problems of Native Americans by bringing up issues of identity, culture, and depression that have to do with the Flathead tribe in Montana. To achieve this goal the book is divided into three parts. The first part is about American government policies applied to reservations and how they influenced the culture of the Flathead tribe connected to that reservation. This is the basis for what will be explained in the next two parts, which will talk about how loneliness and pity relate to identity and depression. O'Nell talks about how Indian culture is much more than the typical American may perceive. He talks about how storytelling in Flathead culture is very important and shows the reader a lot of these stories that have to do with "the white man." One thing that really caught my attention that had to do with Native American identity was the story of a chief who was stopped by the police for no reason. The story begins with the chief of the Flathead tribe carrying his granddaughter around and being stopped. When he was stopped he was issued a ticket because he was not wearing a seatbelt. When he confronted the officer about how they weren't allowed to stop people simply because they weren't wearing seatbelts, the officer said the vehicle "looked suspicious"..