In Pollock's Walsh, what is the symbolic significance of the fake Native attacks & Mountie rescues that Walsh stages for the entertainment of the...

In
Pollock's play Walsh, the staged attack and rescue Walsh has planned for
the Easterners is both sad and ironic. And it is important that he plans it out using
toy soldiers. It speaks to the difference between what is believed about
the Northwest Territory and the Indians (as they are referred to in the play) and the
truth.

One of Walsh's greatest frustrations became his
inability to help Sitting Bull and his people, and his sense of betrayal by his own government.
In one of his letters to his wife, Mary, Walsh notes:

An
able and brilliant people have been crushed, held down, moved from place to place, cheated and
lied to...And now, they hold on here in Canada, the remnants of a proud race, and they ask for
some sort of justice...which is what I thought I swore an oath to serve!

In the scene in question, Sitting Bull has been forced to return
to the States so his people can be fedor so have promised the U.S. government officials. After a
leave of absence, Walsh returns and is planning a...