I could not applaud this sentiment too highly.
What they did should NEVER be forgotten.
What they don’t tell you about Wounded Knee...
“Little Bat’s” (Baptiste Garnier)(last prominent field service was in connection with the Sioux campaign of 1890-91. When Big Foot’s band was corralled at Wounded Knee creek by the Seventh cavalry he doubted the sincerity of the Indians, who had promised to surrender formally on the following day. He told Colonel Forsyth of his fears. The night passed without incident. With the break of day the camps of the troopers and soldiers were astir. Breakfast over, an order was issued that the redskins surrender their arms. This they refused or at least did not do. Thereupon they were commanded to stand in line and submit to a thorough search, as it was “Little Bat’s” belief that the weapons were concealed beneath the folds of the savages’ blankets.
The search had not begun when a medicine man, an aged rascal freshly painted for trouble, slipped before the lines of Indians and those of the soldiers. He began a chant which was full of meaning to “Little Bat.” It was the Sioux’s death song. That a tragedy was at hand there could be no doubt in the mind of this seasoned scout.
In vain did he try to catch the eye of his colonel, who was at the extreme end of one line. Suddenly the medicine man stooped, picked up a handful of snow and sand and flung it high in the air, at the same time ceasing his chant with a shrill cry.
“Look out!” yelled “Little Bat” to the soldiers, but before they could raise their carbines a murderous fire was turned upon them from the two columns of savages. For a moment or more the troopers were in a panic. They knew not which way to turn, so sudden was the attack. But the tide of battle was quick to turn and within thirty minutes over 200 dead and wounded Indians lay upon the field. Of the troopers thirty-five, including brave Captain Wallace, were killed outright and twice as many more were disabled—an awful penalty to pay for attaching so little importance to the suspicions of so experienced a scout as “Little Bat.” Garnier got out of the cross-fire of troops and savages by crawling on his hands and knees to an elevation where a four-inch gun was planted. Here he lay pumping his Winchester into the Indians as they fled for cover in the draws of the hills.
Source: Omaha Daily Bee
If the tribe was not looking for a fight why did they make Ghost Shirts which were supposed to magically stop bullets?
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That’s WAR Secretary Hegseth, you morons.
Those slaughtered by the army were mostly women, children and old men. Most of the fighting age men were not in the camp. They could have been taken prisoner rather than butchered.
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1/256th tempted to call Pocahontas Warren an “Indian Giver”, but CMOHs are earned and she’s no indian.
Gray Beaver is looking out for her people.
My recollection was that the Medal of Honors in the 1800’s were widely distributed. Almost like a service metal. I am not sure when it became more restrictive.
One can’t change history. Let it be.
They wandered off the reservation when told not to do so, after a long series of Indian depredations that usually included torture, gang rape and the indiscriminate killing of women and children.
The soldiers at Wounded Knee also included elements of the 7th Cavalry who would not have been inclined to treat the Sioux lightly.
There are lots of photos of the torture inflicted on captured US Army soldiers. They were savages, and got what they deserved.
“and we’re making it clear that they deserved those medals”
For what, exactly?
Just one one of several massacres by the US gov’t back then as they claim to bring civilization to the natives.
The Times uses the highest estimate of indian dead of course.
“The end result was that some 39 US soldiers were killed along with somewhere between 146 and 300 Indians, depending on the source. William Peano, a member of the burial party who was half Sioux himself, recorded the bodies of 102 men and women of adult age, 24 old men, 7 old women, six boys between five and eight, and seven babies under two. That’s far fewer than the more than 300 that some people claim.”
At all.
I’m from South Dakota and the “battle” of Wounded Knee is a sad part of our history. I do not know if these soldiers deserved the honor for their actions, but this opens old wounds in the Lakota community. For the 250th year of our republic we as a people should seek reconciliation with the Native People who I our past have been often wronged by our government. One way might be a monument in Washington to recognize those Native People who fought with honor in our wars such as the code talkers or to name a Navy warship after one of the great war chiefs.
Many people I know had relatives slaughtered that day.
They are not happy.
My thought is they should have let sleeping dogs lie