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It doesn't take "the left" to inform readers of history to know the the Battle of Little Big Horn occurred in the first place because the US government lied to the Indians, deprived them of decent land, failed to provided promised food and blankets, and so on. This was done to them on a continuous basis. The Massacre at Wounded Knee was an atrocity by most any standards. Those Americans of the 1880s are no more my concern now than the Indians of that time, so I think my view of those incidents can be made objectively and without malice. I am not even slightly proud of the soldiers in that story any more than I am for the people who sent them there. They thought of themselves as good Christians, but were savages themselves.

As far as your notions that some leftist schools brought me this take on the matter, let me set you straight. I learned about that battle and the indecencies leading up to it while living in Colorado in the 1950s. Hatred for the reds was on-going then as it is now. Even though schools sang the praises of Custer back in those days, I immediately saw through it all and recognized the man for what he was. Learning about the tit-for-tat exchanges of cruelty between whites and reds was a real put-off for me. It is best to stay decoupled from it emotionally because the hatreds on both sides were well deserved; and, no place for pride toward either side.