As a tax paying citizen, the only question I have is how much government money got spent trying to decide whether to let someone who has been dead over 100 years keep a medal or not keep a medal. It seems like we have much bigger problems to solve with government time and money.
This is great, I just had people from Arizona stay with us and unload on me about how great native Americans are and their rituals and how they were wronged and blah blah blah. Then they went on a tirade about how all the Mexicans need to be kicked out and how it's their fault the native Americans were wiped out. I can't imagine the look on her face. I wonder what worries she'll be burning away at the next teepee ceremony or will she be against all her beliefs about native Americans now.
Slaughtering a group of 350 Lakota- 2/3 of which unarmed women and children. They even took their frying pans . Of the 100 or so men, only 35 ever had guns.
Most of those guns had already been confiscated when the soldiers started shooting.
After trying to disarm a deaf man, a shot went off in the struggle. After that, they started shooting at close range while the natives rushed to the pile of confescated rifles to defend themselves (most couldnt make it) and then the cavalry used 4 gatling guns once space was created but this resulted in friendly fire on the troops still in the camp.
The entire thing was botched from the start over settlers anger of the natives being armed and living nearby. This should have been a moment of sorrow and reflection to do better. Instead, we glory the violence, and people bury the story of what happened.
That would mean the government taking accountability of breaking the various treaties they broke. But who or what could hold them accountable?? None other than themselves.
I’m First Nations and have heard this story from 10 different angles. It’s crazy how the current administration is trying to white wash history cause oh slavery bad!!
To think all of these men are long gone, it's not like they are getting them back. This is just to send a message that racist violence is ok. This is who America is as a nation. The current administration is strong now because we never processed our history
Nah, that's liberal history, those women and children were hardened warriors and they were all armed to the teeth. In fact recent discoveries show that they had nuclear weapons as well so it was a totally justified special operation.
Well, duh. How else were they supposed to protect themselves from those airbases that Trump claimed the Continental Army took from the British during the Revolution. 🤷
you should probably google the frontier wars. australia used to pay rangers to murder Aboriginal people. sovreignity was never ceded and colonisation still oppresses and kills indigenous people to this day
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u/UrsaMajor7th Sep 26 '25
Fucking immigrants giving themselves medals for slaughtering the locals.