#Indian Wars

[cavalrycommand1876]

Patrol Under Fire by Don Spaulding

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[todaysdocument]

Crow Indian Chiefs, captured at Custer Battlefield, Montana, Nov. 7th and imprisoned at Ft. Snelling, MN, 11/15/1887.

Series: American Indians, 1881 - 1885

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952

Image description: Eight Crow men in traditional clothing, including blankets, beaded necklaces, and braided hair. Crazy-Head, Chief, is wearing a brimmed hat and a fur instead of a blanket. Their names are listed in a caption. Standing: Looks-with-his-Ears, Rock, The-man-that-carries-his-food, Bank; seated: Deaf Bull, Big-Hail-Stone, CRAZY-HEAD, Chief, Crazy-Head’s Son.

[tommy-288]

Y’all I can’t-

[gridleyfires]

Writers, Research Widely

Empire of the Summer Moon, by S. C. Gwynne, and The Last Comanche Chief, by Bill Neely Whether you’re a college student writing a paper, professional author, or someone in between, the way you research can determine pass or fail – or maybe something in between. But there are traps for you, the following being one of the most pernicious examples I can imagine. Some weeks ago I began watching…

[liberty1776]

The Lakota and Comanche were both aggressive imperialest powers too, It is just that the USA was bigger and better at it. For most native Americans, people not of their own tribe were not real human beings. That is true of most tribal cultures throughout history. For Example in their Native language Comanche means "human beings." Their empire was known as the Comancheria, from the 1750s to the 1850s, the Comanches were the dominant group in the Southwest and developed their own form of imperialism. Confronted with Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. outposts on their periphery in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Mexico, they fought to increase their own safety, prosperity and power. Their masterful skill as horse archers enabled them to dominate their neighbors until the Texas Rangers adopted Colt revolvers and equalized the combat. Disease was the single most dangerous threat to Native Americans. The Comanche managed to avoid disease, which gave them an upper hand over the Apaches and other tribes in this area. The great western film, The Searchers, is about the Comanche not the Lakota. The Lakota who had been an allies of the United State against other native peoples, were vaccinated against small pox and then exploited their superior numbers to expand at the expense of their less fortunate neighbors the Pawnee and Crow.

Ask the Crow or Pawnee people about how the Lakota invaded and stole their land. The nickname Sioux, meaning enemies, was given to them by their neighbors. The film Dances with Wolves also makes The Lakota invading and killing the Pawnee look like self defense. I have visited the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in South Dakota, and did a portrait, from old photographs, of one of their chiefs for a school named after him. I did some reasearch on the old warrior and found out that he and his braves had once found a Pawnee village with the men away hunting and were just about to begin massacring the helpless women and children when the US cavalry arrived in the nick of time to stop them.

So the white folk of the USA were no better or worse than other peoples, they were just more successful.

Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

[liberty1776]

Conquering the Comanche | DESTROYING the most POWERFUL Indian Tribe in N...

[kit10phish]

But Daddy, I Love Him- Westward Expansion’s Impact

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[lightdancer1]

Today in Black Military History, the Americas between 1880 and 1914:

Today in Black Military history covering major events of the Americas between 1880 and 1914. The first case is a specific choice of historiography with one look at the more positive aspects of the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers, one more negative, and then one focusing specifically on the broader aspects of the segregated US military that lasted until the Truman Administration.

A key point with this is that in certain ways the military both embodied elements of society around it and in certain ways there were specific rhythms to the actual realities versus how memory would otherwise have them. The United States Colored Troops forces formed in the War of the Rebellion endured through the Gilded Age and into the era of the World Wars.

What this meant in practice is that along with the cowboys being much Blacker than historical memory and movies made them out to be, so were the soldiers in the West. Black soldiers fought in the Cheyenne and Apache Wars, and shared with their fellow soldiers the unlovely experiences of garrison duties and the bitter shabby sequences of violent genocidal spasms of war between the imperial power of the United States and the individual bands of Indigenous peoples who were the last holdouts against it.

To be still more blunt, in this as in other things for the Black people who welcomed this, like this article says, it mattered greatly that Black people were allowed to participate in even a limited sense. That it was there at all mattered more than what it was, for if it was not this, it would be nothing. This is one of the bits of Victorian-age realpolitik that later generations have rather more choices with.....and which would help in the longer terms to store up all the problems that would come home to roost in the Vietnam War.

[almackey]

The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens

This is an excellent lecture by Peter Cozzens based on his book, The Earth Is Weeping, about the Indian Wars.

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Home Sweet Home by Don Spaulding

[liberty1776]

Attack on Wagon Train

The Emigrants, Frederic Remington, between 1902 and 1906

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Book Review: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

Author: Sebastian Barry Title: Days Without End Narrator: Aidan Kelly Publication Info: Blackstone Publishing, 2017 Summary/Review: Set in the turbulent United States of the 1850s and 1860s, Days Without End is narrated by an Irish immigrant named Thomas McNulty.  Having escaped the great hunger as a teenager, McNulty finds himself in the American West where he befriends fellow Irish immigrant…

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Sarisoka

[oldwestmedia]

The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

[nando161mando]

The warmongering US