People seem to forget that after the U.S. Government made a Treaty with the Sioux Nation regarding the Black Hills and environs which was supposed to last "until the river no longer runs", word about gold in the hills spread, and the town of "Deadwood" was, basically, an illegal squatter's camp on what was land belonging to the Indians based on the aforementioned treaty.
Then, those mean bad Indians got ticked and went on the warpath. Why would they do something like that to the poor defenseless harmless well-meaning whites who settled the area? They should have just bent over and taken it I guess.
Indeed. How dare they fight back? How dare they expect the U.S. Government to keep its word?
In any case, I find the bigotry these type of threads inevitably reveal very disturbing. If we were talking about black Americans, a good share of posts on FR would be pulled.