Hello
I didn’t say that Indians weren’t good warriors, but they weren’t good UNITS. Their organization was poor, because of tactical freedom (each warrior could decide to follow the leader or not)
Black Kettle’s involvment in the Kansas massacres was clear and he himself admitted it on November 20, 1868. The “Dog Soldiers” sermon was given by the people who loved Black Kettle and showed him as a peaceful buddy. His own co-chief Little Rock even described the crimes in numerous details
On the 10th of August, 1868, they struck the settlements on the Saline River. On the 12th they reached the Solomon and wiped out a settlement where the city of Minneapolis is now situated. In this raid fifteen persons were killed, two wounded, and five women carried off. On the same day they attacked Wright’s bay camp near Ft. Dodge, raided the Pawnee, and killed two settlers on the Republican. On the 8th of September they captured a train at the Cimarron crossing of the Arkansas River, securing possession of seventeen men, who (they) burned; and the day following they murdered six men between Sheridan and Ft. Wallace. On the first of September, 1868, the Indians killed four men at Spanish Fork, in Texas, and outraged three women. One of those women was outraged by thirteen Indians and afterward killed and scalped. They left her with the hatchet still sticking in her head. Before leaving, they murdered her four little children. Of the children carried off by the Indians from Texas in 1868, fourteen were frozen to death in captivity.
The total of losses from September 12, 1868, to Febuary 9, 1869, exclusive of casualties incident to military operations, was 158 men murdered, sixteen wounded and forty-one scalped. Three scouts were killed, fourteen women outraged, one man was captured, four women and twenty-four children were carried off. Nearly all of these losses occurred in what we then called western Kansas, although the Saline, Solomon and Republican do not seem so very far west now.
Horace Moore
You have the Indians all wrong. They were nice folks to have in the neighborhood. Custer had no damn business sticking his nose into Black Kettle's camp. Clara Blinn was living out her fantasies as a sex toy for her most recent purchaser. Little Willie Blinn was still alive so someone had given him a blanket; either that or he slept with the warm dogs. If Custer hadn't attacked, the Indians wouldn't have put a bullet in her forehead, scalped her and smashed Willie's brains out on a tree.
You can't fool me, I saw Dances with Wolves and read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. What Custer did offends my sensibilities.