Posted on 11/17/2010 6:21:28 AM PST by USALiberty
A series of two-page spreads asks questions ("Have I told you that you are creative?") across from short tributes. He writes of Georgia O'Keeffe: "She helped us see big beauty in what is small: the hardness of stone and the softness of feather." His most controversial choice may be Sitting Bull, who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn: ("A Sioux medicine man who healed broken hearts and broken promises.")
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How did Sitting Bull heal broken hearts and broken promises?
By doing what?
I think whoever wrote this was just entranced with the word ‘healing’. It’s very dernier cri.
the Native americans were warriors. It was a warrior society. Women were treated like beasts of burden. In the aftermath of the battle small children were encouraged to hack up the bodies to toughen them. so it goes.
The fight over history is usually about what gets put into the books.
I'm sorry, but the history of Indian affairs in this country is a largely shameful one. William Penn showed that it was possible to live peacefully side-by-side if affairs were conducted fairly.
The worst “history books” of all are the ones written by the people of the times................
Georgia O’Keeffe’e work may be beautiful, but is mostly va-jay-jays
WOW! Now the Kenyan Usurper is openly praising terrorists?
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Custer was the damned terrorist.
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse et alia were Red State Americans clinging to their guns and religion and antipathy to people who weren’t like them, who incidentally were also trying to kill them, their wives and their children. The defenders at the Little Bighorn understood the nature of the federal government and its benevolent intent early on.
That, unfortunately, was a two way street in the Indian wars.
These Indians were trecherous people, with no guiding principles to reign in their human instincts.
I assume you got this from your antiquarian books. Did those same books tell you about the soldiers who "routinely slaughtering women and children"? Probably not. A more accurate history requires a little distance from the events. Ask George Bush.
Pet peeve of mine: wasn’t Custer a colonel when he was killed? Or a Lt. Col.?
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Brevet Major General of Volunteers during the Civil War, Lieutenant Colonel in the Regular Army after the Civil War.
Just an aspect of the much smaller scale of the US Army after the war.
This is the only thing I agree with Obama about. Custer was an arrogant Indian killer who thought his 600 men could swoop down on a village of 12-20,000 Sioux and Northern Comanche and rout them. He deserved what he got. Too bad for the innocent soldiers that had to follow him. All he had to do was to wait for Gen. Terry and success would have followed.
Yup. Beautiful, colorful porn.
He sees traits of Sitting Bull in his two pre-teen daughters?
Ah, but this is The Obama. He sees whatever he needs to see in his daughters to get His Name praised.
I assume you got this from your antiquarian books. Did those same books tell you about the soldiers who “routinely slaughtering women and children”?
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I think the Time Life series had a photograph of a cavalry trooper’s tobacco pouch made from an Indian woman’s tit. I loved the old matinee movies too, but they were kid’s entertainment, not history.
This is the only thing I agree with Obama about.
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Obama does not always (although it seems that way at times) get his facts wrong, but his use of them is always perverted.
Correct; Sitting Bull was a freedom fighter, not a terrorist. The American Indians were mistreated horribly (a few deservedly, but most not so) for a lot of years. Remember that when we thought that Obama’s minions might become a physical threat to us (conservatives in general), we were prepared to fight them. And fighting “fair” only gets you killed quicker!
By the way, weren't Custer's attackers led by Chief Crazy Horse, not Chief Sitting Bull?
Leni
Lt. Col. And 2nd in command of the 7th Cavalry. The actual commander, Col. Samuel D. Sturgis, who replaced the original commander, Col. Andrew Johnson Smith, in 1869, never held a field command. Custer had field commander.
I thought it was Crazy Horse that defeated Custer!...............
My website will give you a fair idea...
Northern Cheyenne, not Comanche. As for waiting for Terry and success being assured, that's quite debatable...
Neither were chiefs, per se. Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Sioux and considered a mystic, Crazy Horse an Oglala warrior of influence (a shirt wearer). Both of the Teton division of the Sioux nation.
Northern Cheyenne, not Comanche. As for waiting for Terry and success being assured, that’s quite debatable...
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Thus the infected blankets and extermination of the buffalo.
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