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To: Standing Wolf

Your grandmother shouldn’t revel in the massacre of American GIs and the enemy murdering the American wounded and POWs, but the left seems to love such things.


12 posted on 03/11/2013 4:31:49 PM PDT by ansel12 ( August 29,2008 A Natural Born Reformer inadvertently unleashed within palace walls, change ensues.)
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To: ansel12
I don't think you understand the nature of the relationship between the Native Americans and the US government. The treatment of the Indians was and is profoundly disgraceful. Here is what Gen. Nelson Miles wrote a week before the massacre:

“The difficult Indian problem cannot be solved permanently at this end of the line. It requires the fulfillment of Congress of the treaty obligations that the Indians were entreated and coerced into signing. They signed away a valuable portion of their reservation, and it is now occupied by white people, for which they have received nothing.”

“They understood that ample provision would be made for their support; instead, their supplies have been reduced, and much of the time they have been living on half and two-thirds rations. Their crops, as well as the crops of the white people, for two years have been almost total failures.”

“The dissatisfaction is wide spread, especially among the Sioux, while the Cheyennes have been on the verge of starvation, and were forced to commit depredations to sustain life. These facts are beyond question, and the evidence is positive and sustained by thousands of witnesses.”

22 posted on 03/11/2013 5:50:26 PM PDT by stormer
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