Many members of an earlier generation did hear of him. Rifles for Watie (New York: Harper and Row, 1957), a novel for young people, won the prestigious Newbery Award and went through several editions.
Posted on 08/20/2017 6:28:10 AM PDT by Antoninus
“Endeavor to persevere.”
EXCELLENT point on Stand Watie.
If the other side wasn’t in this for pure power they’d have to admit you were right.
Ping.
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Great article. Thanks for posting it.
I had no idea General Watie was on FR. LOL.
Please boycott and DO NOT use the $1.00, $20.00, $50.00, & $100.00 bills, as they depict pictures of slave owners. Gather all of these hideous forms of racism and send them to me. I will see to it that they are disposed of properly. You don’t have to thank me, I do this as a public service for my country.
Many members of an earlier generation did hear of him. Rifles for Watie (New York: Harper and Row, 1957), a novel for young people, won the prestigious Newbery Award and went through several editions.
Thinking I need to put a copy of “ Gone With The Wind “ in my safe...
What ever happened to our ardent friend stand_watie? I miss her on these threads, albeit a bit volatile!
When I attended ceremonies for the Confederate POW burial ground at Pt. Lookout, prominent were a few representatives of the Cherokee Nation. The chief presented a memorial wreath from the Cherokee as we all did.
It’s amazing how much we DON’T know about our history. A tad more information would put things in much better context. I’ve learned alot on the RevWar side, being a devotee to our founding.
No big deal for the $20. They’re replacing Jackson with Tubman.
If anyone should be bitter about the Civil War it is the South. The South was all but destroyed for their resistance of the North. These memorials to figures of the South are some concession to dignity that I’ll say allowed the war to end and the nation to mend just a little. They are not icons to the memory of slavery. It is just stupid to believe that.
Let’s just tear down all the statues and destroy all the icons of our past and former principles and become an even more directionless, traditionless, hedonist nation.
I have already stated that not only Cherokees but blacks as well held slaves
Antifa and their efforts aren’t about any of that. They are commies through and through
if the flag, and monuments are to be removed because it is insulting to the snowflakes , because it flew and represents slavery, and oppression then does the Stars and Stripes come down since that too flew on slave ships, flew out west when fighting the indians?
This is why all of this is so stupid, and dumb. The people who state they are insulted are the same people who vote for the party of slavery, KKK, segregation, and against the civil rights act.
FRIGGING IDIOTS.
They should replace the statues with statues of abolitionists.
BLM’s response: You want us to put up statues of white people?
The debate would be fun to watch.
Beat me to it. Chief Dan George was magnificent in the role.
Will they attack the Tahlequah memorial? The Stand Watie Memorial Highway? Stand Watie’s grave not far from here?
Not long ago I saw a large number of paintings done by a local honoring Watie and his battles.
For those interested, almost all the tribes in Oklahoma and the plains went to war against the Union. Only the Pawnee, Crow and a small band of Yakaton Sioux remained loyal to the North. Osages were split, but most went South. It was believed /confederate agents were slipping in from Canada stirring up the northern tribes.
On the plains, the Apaches in New Mexico attacked the Union forts and welcomed in the Confederate cavalry. Farther north, the Cheyenne and Arapaho had the same plans for forts along the Arkansas River. Some members of Black Kettle’s tribe, being schooled in St Louis immediately joined the Confederate army and fought in Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi. They were believed to be agents for the South when Chivington hit their camp at Sand Creek and captured them. Chivington had earlier helped destroy a Confederate advance into New Mexico and felt the hostile tribes were “Red Rebels”
After the war, the Oklahoma tribes were forced to give up almost all the western part of Oklahoma. These areas were later made into reservations for other western tribes forced out of their homelands.
Contrary to popular belief, the Cherokee casinos and other tribes will not reject a bill with Andrew Jackson’s portrait on it.
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