Posted on 12/28/2021 6:32:31 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1894, Sioux Chief Cha Nopa Uhah (“Two Sticks”) was hanged in Deadwood, S.D., for instigating the murder of white ranchers on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
The story begins little more than two years after one of the most tragic and emblematic events in the white conquest of North America — Wounded Knee:
By early 1893, the “Ghost Dance” religious movement that had animated the Lakota people had not disappeared … nor had the futile dream of armed resistance to white domination.
A band under Chief Two Sticks, a leader described as resistant to settled white civilization and inclined towards retaining the traditional nomadic life, raided a white cattle ranch. The raid was not deadly, but its consequences were.
Indian police dispatched to arrest the raiders were killed in a shootout, after which the raiders again attacked the ranch — looking this time for men, not cattle. Four white cowboys were killed.
A number of additional Indians died when tribal authorities deployed in force to stop Two Sticks’ followers, perhaps narrowly averting much worse — as it’s a given that federal authorities would not have countenanced Two Sticks’ continued liberty.....
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> the white conquest of North America <
It’s interesting how the author describes the situation as a “white conquest”, as if it were primarily a racial thing. If that were true, the Dutch would have been left alone in New Amsterdam.
Such wokeness - however inadvertent - does nothing but make our racial divide worse. The author should be ashamed of himself.
Defeated Indian tribes were treated much better by the Americans than they ever were by other Indian tribes. Many Indian tribes practiced genocide, slavery, torture, and cannibalism.
“White conquest” of the Asian ice-bridge savages. Weep, weep, weep.
I think I’ll go snivel in my sleeve and pretend none of my ancestors ever conquered.
Anyone got any info on the Spicer Family murders in 1897?
I used to have a magazine that had photos of the slain family but cannot find them on line anywhere.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18903668/thomas-spicer-family-massacre-1897/
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