Crazy Horse's Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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- An article about Crazy Horse's account as it appeared in the Bismarck Tribune, June 11, 1877.
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Thank you for the narritive from the native side, As you know i recently visited the battle site,, we visit many historical locations,,this site is among the most moving,,Thanks again
With all of the gaming money some tribes are making now, why haven't they opened a NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST MUSEAM in Washington DC.
custer had it coming!
Is it not true that Custer- the great indian fighter- only had one "victory" on the plains? That one being a route of women and children and old people at Washita river?
Trivial information : Custer was armed with 2 British Bulldog revolvers,not Colts. His hair had been cut short a few days earlier.
Custer graduated from West Point 34th out of a class of 34.
He was court-martialled in 1867 for disobeying orders,treating his men cruelly and abandoning two of them to the Indians.Reinstated the following year,he massacred 103 Cheyenne (including women and children) and earned from the Indians the epithet "Squaw-killer". (The Guiness Book of military Blunders).
Actually, the Sand Creek Massacre is called a massacre.
wow, 7000 warriors, never heard that number
There was a very good reason why Custer did not want to take the Gatlings. The .45-70 ammunition that was available used soft copper cases. The rims tore off in both the Springfield rifles and the Gatling guns causing the guns to jam. With the Springfield, you could pry the case out with the tip of a knife. With the Gatling, an armorer had to disassemble it to clear the jam. Custer tried to get the new brass cased cartridges from Frankford Arsenal, but couldn't get any.
Last of the Mohicans written before the Civil War expressed great respect for the native Americans, and further, and suggested that we had more in common with the Natives that with the British colonial masters.
well Columbus put in a journal thing that there were around 3 million people (estimate) on the first little island he "discovered", also it doesn't matter if they were stone aged, they knew what they needed to know to survive. Also the Maya, Inca, Aztec ect.. may have been stone aged but they rivaled European countries in their intelligence and craftsmanship.
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Custer didn't discover the gold. He was a soldier, not a prosepector.
Custer was very familiar with the Indians, and was sure that no great force could be assembled against him. He didn't think he would need the Gatling guns, and left them behind (each weighed about 300 lbs, and would have slowed his advance). He dispersed his forces into three columns. The Indians had assembled a large group, some 15,000 and would soon have to disperse to pursue food. Custer was aggressive, and on this case, unlucky.
It is also important to note that Custer had, in his testimony to the Senate, opposed the Grant administration Indian policy, so much so that he was almost not permitted to take part in the campaign. He was eventually permitted to take part, because of the expectation that if he was not part of it, the Grant Administration would be blamed for keeping him out if there were any reverses.
I think that the Gatlings that were left behind may have resolved matters in Custer's favor. Other than that...there were no happy endings for the 7th Cavalry that day.
He knew the indians well, and knew that there were severe limitations on how many could congregate together for any length of time. The indians were about to leave, because of that. Death in battle due to one's own, or others miscalculations was an occupational hazard of the career that Custer had chosen. The brave thing that military men do is sign up, the rest is following through. He followed through, which is all we can can do sometimes.
Very good information
Interesting.
I recommend a small book available on the internet: by a Lieutenant Parker---> With the Gatlings in Cuba... Lt Parker used Gatlings to support the attack of the Cavalry Division in Cuba against the dug in Spanish.
If used like cannon, which they much resembled, they could have provided suppressive fire during the cavalry attack, perhaps from the bluffs above the Indian encampment, or perhaps from across the river where Reno attacked.
There is truth there, but who knows what would have happened once they opened up. The Indians could have continued attacking hoping for a jam, or could have called off their attack, in an attempt to hold off the cavalry until the rest of the encampment could get away.
Robert Koch was the first scientist to devise a series of proofs used to verify the germ theory of disease. Koch's Postulates were published in 1890, and derived from his work demonstrating that anthrax was caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. These postulates are still used today to help determine if a newly discovered disease is caused by a microorganism.
there is most certainly not more natives now than there were before, it was estimated that over 60 million native americans roamed and lived in the Americas. They weren't also "Happily exterminating" each other, they did however war just like any other European country in the time. Also, yes Natives intermarried because the elders thought that if they intermarried there was a smaller chance of their camps being attacked by whites. Have a good day.
Battle of the Washita River! yes, it was a glorious victory, wasn't it?
Genocide implies volition. Most died from exposure to disease. Disease was not understood well enough (colonization being far in advance of germ theory) to permit deliberate acts. Ergo, using the term genocide is wrong.
Custer had previously gotten the Indians to return to their reservations, at some personal risk, and with honor. He was a complex man with a brilliant war record in the Civil War, and an excellent record subsequent to that. You dishonor yourself, for Custer is beyond your reach..
Again, look up when the germ theory of disease became known and accepted, and compare it to the time frame of the "blanket" story. Then you have to assume that a fellow responsible for the blankets was completely aware of the their history, and their potential. I haven't seen such a trail. No doubt that many died. So did many colonists, of diseases carried by Amerinds. In no case was the intent of genocide clear.The Rolf family, part English, and part Amerind, were highly honored in Virginia.
Because there are more native americans now than there were when Columbus landed. Because the natives were were happily exterminating each other before the Europeans arrived. Because the Native Americans were heavily intermarried with the Europeans (look up the Rolf family in Virginia).