[kingu]

Last I checked, American Indians were US citizens, and since when is it bad to celebrate an American who stood up to a lying and cheating federal government who sends troops after women and children?

[marron]

Last I checked, American Indians were US citizens, and since when is it bad to celebrate an American who stood up to a lying and cheating federal government who sends troops after women and children?

Thank you.

[ansel12]

Those indians were not Americans, and how did they treat our POWs?

[April Lexington]

Last I checked, American Indians were US citizens, and since when is it bad to celebrate an American who stood up to a lying and cheating federal government who sends troops after women and children? I am inclined to agree. The Fedgove never does anything good for the people it just protects Big Money through their puppets in Washington...

[ZULU]

I agree with you.

Sitting Bull, Tatanka Yotanka - whose name doesn’t literally mean Sitting Bull, but rather a Bull Buffalo who has taken up a position to fight, was a Great American. He fought for his people against a rapacious, duplicitious, racist government trying to exercise a policy of ethnic cleansing.

He didn’t personally kill Custer anyway. He and his warriros were defending their village from attack by an irresponsible, glory-seeking maniac. And had Custer succeeded at the Little Bighorn, he very well may have gone on to afflict us as a U.S. President.

The Lakota did us a favor.

Custor was the yahoo who hung Mosby’s partisans in the Civil War, possibly initiating a series of mutual POW murders.

I regret the deaths of the brave troops who died under the command of this maniac, as I regret the deaths of the tribesmen killed in the action.

He was a Yahoo.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***and since when is it bad to celebrate an American who stood up to a lying and cheating federal government who sends troops after women and children?***

Perhaps it is because the Sioux were invaders of CROW Indian territory, where the Little bighorn is located.

The CROWS were enemies of the Sioux and were scouting with Custer at that time.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It isn’t clear what Lt. Col. Custer intended to do, but he almost certainly did not intend to fight. The Indians were reacting to white squatters who were prospecting on land that the U.S. Government had promised the Indians. When there were incidents between the Indians and squatters, George Armstrong “Last in his Class” Custer was sent to “investigate”. Custer, who had not earned his brevet calvary generalship during the Civil War for his levelheadedness and reserve was probably the wrong person to send on such a mission. When the Indians saw that the squatters were followed by calvary, they drew the obvious, and sadly probably correct, conclusion.

[The KG9 Kid]

Not only that,. but Sitting Bull was one of America's first superstar entertainers. He used to tour Chicago, Baltimore, and was a huge fan of Annie Oakley and even shook hands with President Grover Cleveland. The man was a great American. Custer, not so much.

[SJSAMPLE]

Exactly.
A long litteny of abuses against aboriginal/”native” Americans cannot be excused or forgotten.

[Dudoight]

I’m with you...it was insane, unfair, and a travesty. General Custer got what he deserved.

[Old Student]

“Last I checked, American Indians were US citizens, and since when is it bad to celebrate an American who stood up to a lying and cheating federal government who sends troops after women and children?”

And the stupid bastrich who thought it was terrible when women and kids were killed on his side, but just fine when done to the Indians. Kindly note that the “Battle of Wounded Knee” was also the 7th following the example of their former leader. (Not that Indians were considered citizens back then. Nope. Foreign nationals.)

As another poster noted, good and bad on both sides. AFAIK, I have no Indian blood, but I recognize that they got a rotten deal. Custer wasn't the best representative of our forces. Probably not the worst, either.

[Smokin' Joe]

Last I checked, American Indians were US citizens, and since when is it bad to celebrate an American who stood up to a lying and cheating federal government who sends troops after women and children?

Well said. Custer had already earned a distinct lack of popularity in the Carolinas hanging civilians during the War Between the States.