[DoughtyOne]

What I'm trying to address is the fact that you won't find US citizens celebrating the death of indians. Here it seems the reverse is taking place. If this wasn't the case then this celebration (to instill character in their youth) could take place on 364 other days during the year.

I don't make the case that the US has been fair with Indians. I am not quite as convinced as other people that we were in all instances wrong, or that a holocaust level series of events took place. And that does seem to be the prevailing idea the media desires to get across.

They are not alone.

[kms61]

We celebrate plenty of military victories, and battles, almost by definition, are where people get killed.

I look at this as their celebrating a victory, not the deaths of Custer and his men in particular.

Incidentally, among the books I've read on the subject was one (don't remember the name right now) that examined the forensic evidence of the battle. Their seems to be some indication that there were at least a few survivors who managed to escape and evade, but eventually died of wounds or exposure....there were some skeletons found a considerable distance from the actual site of the battle.

[Red Boots]

I don't make the case that the US has been fair with Indians. I am not quite as convinced as other people that we were in all instances wrong, or that a holocaust level series of events took place. And that does seem to be the prevailing idea the media desires to get across. A very interesting book in that regard is, "The Invented Indian" by (or edited by, I can't recall exactly) James Clinton. You might check it out. While I am not defending every action by the US, IMO I have read enough first-hand accounts to say that the word savage was not applied through racisim alone.