By 1880, the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments had minimized Indian resistance in Texas and the 9th Cavalry was ordered to Indian Territory in modern-day Oklahoma, ironically to prevent white settlers from illegally settling on Indian land. The 10th Cavalry continued to keep the Apache in check until the early 1890s when they relocated to Montana to round up the Cree. About 20 percent of U.S. Cavalry troops that participated in the Indian Wars were buffalo soldiers, who participated in at least 177 conflicts.
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The soldiers’ main mission was to secure the road from San Antonio to El Paso and restore and maintain order in areas disrupted by Native Americans, many of whom were frustrated with life on Indian reservations and broken promises by the federal government. The Black soldiers, facing their own forms of discrimination from the U.S. government, were tasked with removing another minority group in that government’s name.
The alleged bestowal of this name “Buffalo Soldiers” as a sign of respect by Indian warriors has not gone unchallenged. The most serious objection has come from contemporary Native American leaders, who were angered over the publicity attending the issue of a buffalo-soldier postage stamp in 1994 and resented the suggestion that there was some special bond between the soldiers and their warrior ancestors. In fact the 10th Cavalry's crest prominently displayed a bison, but it was designed and adopted in 1911, so while it may reflect some memory of the name dating from the regiment’s early days, it does not necessarily indicate acceptance of the name by black soldiers of the Indian-war period.
The first contemporary salvo of dissent came from Vernon Bellecourt in 2005. Writing in the weekly Indian Country Today, a reliable forum for objections to glorification of Buffalo Soldiers, Bellecourt denied that the name reflected any "endearment or respect." As far as he was concerned, Plains Indians only applied the term Buffalo Soldier to "these marauding murderous cavalry units" because of "their dark skin and texture of their hair."
Mackenzie’s force killed only three warriors but he now had over eleven hundred horses and mules, hundreds of lodges, and the Indians’ winter food cache. Rather than pursue, the ever-pragmatic Mackenzie drove the horses and mules twenty miles south into Tule Canyon. There, he allowed his scouts to select a few horses; the rest were driven up a long draw and shot by cavalrymen. The Southern Plains’ finest horsemen: Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne were now afoot without food or shelter. The Buffalo Soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry harried the scattered bands throughout the fall, winter, and spring, skirmishing, burning lodges and food caches. But the Comanche held out, hunting on foot, eating grubs and rodents. Finally, in the spring and summer of 1875, the Comanche chiefs gathered their starving people and surrendered at Fort Sill, in Indian Territory.
Buffalo soldiers were African American soldiers who mainly served on theWestern frontier following the American Civil War. In 1866, six all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments were created after Congress passed the Army Organization Act. Their main tasks were to help control the Native Americans of the Plains, capture cattle rustlers and thieves and protect settlers, stagecoaches, wagon trains and railroad crews along the Western front.
What a blatantly vile, slap in the face to American Indians this video is. It's disgusting! I'd like to meet the creators face to face. We'd have ourselfs a little talk.
This is blatantly racist video. I demand you correct it and include the mistreatment against the American Indian!! Who authorized the blatant and deliberate erasure of the the Indians of this video!? They deserve to be fired immediately!
What a blatantly racist outlook on what these solders where really used for. You totally and deliberately skipped over the mistreatment of the American Indian. There's not a single section of any honor within the colonial US government. Shame on you, department of the interior.
@@linzierogers5024 Colonial lies, myths and fantasies to pander to American settler "exceptionalism." The settler colony of America, is a nation of cowards. Using their false god Jesus and his so called doctrine of "discovery" to justify it all, declared and upheld as US so called "law."
By 1880, the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments had minimized Indian
resistance in Texas and the 9th Cavalry was ordered to Indian Territory
in modern-day Oklahoma,
ironically to prevent white settlers from illegally settling on Indian
land. The 10th Cavalry continued to keep the Apache in check until the
early 1890s when they relocated to Montana to round up the Cree.
About
20 percent of U.S. Cavalry troops that participated in the Indian Wars
were buffalo soldiers, who participated in at least 177 conflicts.
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American History. Thank you for educating us, their role helped shape The US in many positive ways.
The soldiers’ main mission was to secure the road from San Antonio to El
Paso and restore and maintain order in areas disrupted by Native
Americans, many of whom were frustrated with life on Indian reservations
and broken promises by the federal government. The Black soldiers,
facing their own forms of discrimination from the U.S. government, were
tasked with removing another minority group in that government’s name.
The alleged bestowal of this name “Buffalo Soldiers” as a sign of respect by Indian warriors has not gone unchallenged. The most serious objection has come from contemporary Native American leaders, who were angered over the publicity attending the issue of a buffalo-soldier postage stamp in 1994 and resented the suggestion that there was some special bond between the soldiers and their warrior ancestors. In fact the 10th Cavalry's crest prominently displayed a bison, but it was designed and adopted in 1911, so while it may reflect some memory of the name dating from the regiment’s early days, it does not necessarily indicate acceptance of the name by black soldiers of the Indian-war period.
The first contemporary salvo of dissent came from Vernon Bellecourt in 2005. Writing in the weekly Indian Country Today, a reliable forum for objections to glorification of Buffalo Soldiers, Bellecourt denied that the name reflected any "endearment or respect." As far as he was concerned, Plains Indians only applied the term Buffalo Soldier to "these marauding murderous cavalry units" because of "their dark skin and texture of their hair."
Mackenzie’s force killed only three warriors but he now had over eleven hundred horses and mules, hundreds of lodges, and the Indians’ winter food cache. Rather than pursue, the ever-pragmatic Mackenzie drove the horses and mules twenty miles south into Tule Canyon. There, he allowed his scouts to select a few horses; the rest were driven up a long draw and shot by cavalrymen.
The Southern Plains’ finest horsemen: Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne were now afoot without food or shelter.
The Buffalo Soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry harried the scattered bands throughout the fall, winter, and spring, skirmishing, burning lodges and food caches. But the Comanche held out, hunting on foot, eating grubs and rodents.
Finally, in the spring and summer of 1875, the Comanche chiefs gathered their starving people and surrendered at Fort Sill, in Indian Territory.
Buffalo soldiers were African American soldiers who mainly served on theWestern frontier following the American Civil War. In 1866, six all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments were created after Congress passed the Army Organization Act. Their main tasks were to help control the Native Americans of the Plains, capture cattle rustlers and thieves and protect settlers, stagecoaches, wagon trains and railroad crews along the Western front.
I have been told my great grandfather Thomas White was in the spanish american war. How can I find out more information about him?
Why the high-pitched noise though.
What a blatantly vile, slap in the face to American Indians this video is. It's disgusting! I'd like to meet the creators face to face. We'd have ourselfs a little talk.
This is blatantly racist video. I demand you correct it and include the mistreatment against the American Indian!! Who authorized the blatant and deliberate erasure of the the Indians of this video!? They deserve to be fired immediately!
What a blatantly racist outlook on what these solders where really used for. You totally and deliberately skipped over the mistreatment of the American Indian. There's not a single section of any honor within the colonial US government. Shame on you, department of the interior.
American history is a history of omission.
@@linzierogers5024 Colonial lies, myths and fantasies to pander to American settler "exceptionalism." The settler colony of America, is a nation of cowards. Using their false god Jesus and his so called doctrine of "discovery" to justify it all, declared and upheld as US so called "law."
@@linzierogers5024 What goes around comes around... and I shall shed no tears, when it does.