You can take that up with Napolean.
The United Stated legally purchased the land from France.
Posted on 06/25/2022 7:34:35 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
On June 25, 1876, a village of some five thousand Lakotas and Cheyennes camped on the Greasy Grass River (today’s Little Big Horn) was famously attacked by George Armstrong Custer and his vaunted Seventh Cavalry. The Indians were followers of the powerful Húnkpapa holy man Sitting Bull, and, like their leader, most of them wanted nothing to do with white men. They simply wanted to be left alone, to live separate from the Euro-Americans who’d been steadily encroaching and trespassing upon Lakota lands for decades.
With shouts of “Hóka hé!” (Come on!) and “The Earth is all that lasts!” the Oglala war chief Crazy Horse and other Indian leaders rapidly gathered their warriors and galloped off to defend their families. And because Custer had unwisely divided his regiment into three battalions, more than a thousand Lakota and Cheyenne fighting men were able to strike these separated detachments individually. On a grassy ridge overlooking the Greasy Grass, the warriors completely overwhelmed Custer and some two hundred troopers of the Seventh. The Indians’ stunning victory was soon dubbed “Custer’s Last Stand.”
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The left wojlda saidmthstnthe battle for battle of little bighorn was “mostly peaceful” since the white man got slaughtered.
“The Earth is all that lasts!”
Says a lot that this was featured in the article…
“The people in the States blame me for having killed Custer and his army,” Sitting Bull said in 1878. “He came to attack me, and in sufficient numbers to show me that they wanted to destroy me and my children.”
As an Army vet I always ask, how the American GIs wounded and POWs were treated by the enemy at Little Big Horn.
I still wonder if his Indian scouts set him up by misleading him on the size of the village.
> how the American GIs wounded and POWs were treated by the enemy at Little Big Horn <
Good point. Little Big Horn was not a battle but a massacre. Articles like this one are quick to mention that the Indians were defending their homes. Fair enough. But there’s no discussion of how the Indians treated wounded and incapacitated soldiers.
Of course we know how they were treated. But to include that in the historical narrative would be oh so politically incorrect.
most likely killed and mutilated by the women of the tribes after the battle was over.
I imagine the troopers saved the last bullet for themselves. Like the Afghan women in Kipling’s poem, the Indian women would torture the wounded.
Truer words were never spoken. If you attack a people's women and children you can expect no mercy if you fail. A fine example of the 'castle doctine' if there ever was one.
Custer wore Arrow shirts.
Custer was brave to extent of foolhardy. He squandered his and his command’s lives. He longed for his glory days during the Civil War. He was a Brevet-Major-General rifted back to Lt. Col. after the war.
I think he may have been rash (he once went AWOL to visit his wife) but I don't think his competence in military matters was ever called into question until this battle.
United States (fat finger).
In America like every where else on Earth land belongs to those strong enough to keep it. The Sioux’s sacred land once belonged to other tribes, which took it from other tribes. The North American indians were truly a stone age people and savages. Read about the Comanches if you have any doubt.
“Sitting Bull wasn’t against educating his people, but he wanted the children taught to read and write in Lakota. Indian Bureau policy, however, prohibited government and missionary schools from teaching students to read and write in their native language”.
To my knowledge none of the North American tribes had a written language, including the Sioux, until missionaries invented one for them in 1840. It is doubtful that it was in wide use by 1877 as the Indians saw no use for it.
Good thing the white tribe came along. It stopped the incessant Indian tribes from slaughtering each other and taking each other’s land. We’re still doing tribal warfare. My tribe is not winning much lately but the enemy will fall once
My tribe gets a backbone.
It was really the Indian’s last stand.
Lethal force in self-defense is the right of every man.
It is no sin to kill someone who is intending to kill you.
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