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To: FLT-bird
"I’d recommend reading 38 Nooses which is an excellent book about this...."

Based on your narrative I seriously doubt it.

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The Sioux were savages who got in the way of the western expansion. They displaced the Ojibwa in many parts of Southern Minnesota by their raiding parties and cold blooded murder. It is the way of the world snowflake. They were nomadic and historically moved from place to place with some agriculture but primarily hunter/gatherers.

My great grandparents and their children paid for their land by the sweat of their brow; no handouts to immigrants back then. You worked very hard, raised a family and saved every little bit that you could. I won't be apologizing for their hard work and frugal lifestyles.

My grandmother on my mothers side hated the Sioux. In the late summer and early fall groups of them would wander through Lyon County in Southern Minnesota, not looking for work but for anything they could steal. They would see my grandfather out in the field with his dog and they would sneak into the farmstead, stealing clothes off the clothesline and making a mess of her garden. That was in the 1890's when they could ill-afford it, but they managed through their own hard work.

150 years after their murderous rampage in 1862 against farmers who did them no harm the Sioux still refuse to adapt to the reality of America, parked out in South Dakota on reservation lands living off whatever the government will give them for free. I have no sympathy for folks who refuse to get an education and find productive work. Sittin' on the Rez' is a dead end. Make something of yourself and quit your b#tchin'.

60 posted on 03/05/2019 8:15:58 AM PST by Sa-teef
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To: Sa-teef

There’s no question there were atrocities committed against settlers who were not to blame. What you ignore however is that the Dakota were given damned good reason to feel aggrieved. The Federal govt and specifically the Alincoln administration broke their word and the treaty they had signed. Afterward they committed numerous atrocities against the Dakota (and even Winnebago who were not involved) while several of the crooked bastards lined their pockets as a result. A lot of the Dakota and Winnebago were every bit as innocent as the settlers were. The real bad guy here is the Federal govt - especially the Lincoln administration.


61 posted on 03/05/2019 8:22:22 AM PST by FLT-bird
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