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Post by ozo on Jan 4, 2014 18:03:32 GMT -6
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Post by Gittyup on Jan 5, 2014 6:02:07 GMT -6
My heart has always bled for the American Indian. Watching cowboy movies, I often supported the Indians because even as a child, I could see how they were mistreated and their land stolen from them. I have often wondered what the way of life of the American Indian would be like today had the white man had not taken it away from them. So sad to see a people disappear for the sake of greed!
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Post by ozo on Jan 22, 2014 13:27:00 GMT -6
Again, by the late 1880’s the US Cavalry was employing genocidal tactics (supplying trading posts with smallpox-infected blankets, etc.) to slaughter the remaining Indians who did not want to live in those prison camps we now call reservations.
With only their bare hands to fight back, the Indians tried to defend themselves, but the incident deteriorated further into bloody chaos, and the [350 - ?] unarmed Indians were outmatched and outnumbered by the nearly 500 U.S. soldiers.
Yessir, sounds familiar.
And after us, they will have to go after themselves. The greed will never die.
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Post by Gittyup on Jan 24, 2014 10:30:57 GMT -6
So true, so very true!
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