Question: what was the meaning of the wizard of oz

title: Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
text: However this may have been sarcastic or a rhetorical question , as he also wrote `` An eastern contemporary , with a grain of wisdom in its wit , says that `` when the whites win a fight , it is a victory , and when the Indians win it , it is a massacre . '' . The beginning of his Saturday Pioneer editorial also seems sympathetic to Sitting Bull `` He was an Indian with a white man 's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his . In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions : forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites . And these , his conquerors , were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness , falsehood and treachery . What wonder that his wild nature , untamed by years of subjection , should still revolt ? What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies . '' .