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Is it 1232 Zulu yet?

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The NCCA has now entered the NHL and Formula 1 arena with their banning of "Offensive" names during tournament times.

Here's the the thing about the word "Sioux", it's French. It's derived from Arapaho meaning snake in the grass. UND has two options change the name or change the mascot to a rattlesnake. Which would be a great way to thumb our nose at you Easterners.

The nations consider a warrior to be someone who looks after the widowed and the tribe. A warrior wouldn't eat unless the women ate first. They were the one's who put their life on the line for the safety of others. Basically, what God expect us men to do. Also, weren't there Germanic warriors, Roman warriors. Heck don't we refer to our SEALs as our best warriors?

What are they going to do about the Fighting Irish? Following there logic it feeds into the stereotype of brawling Irishmen. It seams to me that at the end of the nineteenth century most of the boxers were Irish. Also just so you know look at the roster of troops that were with Custer, you have indians and Irish men fighting with him.

What about Wyoming Cowboys? The term "cowboys" in the nineteenth century was akin to calling someone a rustler. For those of you east of the Mississippi that's a cattle thief. Back in the old days you call someone a thief you would have a quick meeting with a peacemaker or bowie. Seams to me that cowboys is an offensive name.

In high School, I had some Hidsta friends Jason would were an Atlanta Braves Cap (granted this is a MLB team but I just was going to show what indians really thought about this drivel). By the way, the Atlanta Braves were originally in Boston. Can anyone tell me of anything that happened in Boston in 1776? A hint it involves tea.

To be real honest it's just abunch of white people that are wusses that want this change. The indians that bring it up is for attention which I can't blame them when other groups make to much noise. Just so you all realize the government is way behind on the annuities that we swore in the treaties to pay. I dare you to go to Pine Ridge you will see what real poverty is.

[Dakotaranger]

Today is the 129 anniversary of what us whites call Custer's Last Stand or the Little Big Horn. The Lakota, Ogalla, And Cheyenne call Gressy Grass. There are several reasons that this is important and I will get into it later.

First of all the Rank at the time of Gressy Grass was Lt. Colonel, but due to his brevetted Rank in the Civil War was Major General. So if a person were to address him it would be General. It is the same as we refer to President Reagan after he left office, becaue he earned the title. The only way he would have lost the right to be called General is if he was demoted due to an infraction of military law. At the time he was posted here at Fort Lincoln Southwest of Bismarck, Dakota Territory was the need for generals was not as great.

During the Civil War he was considered the North premiere Calvary General were he perfected dividing his force and strategy that generations of historians would pan him for the last four decades.

First off, General Custer was arrogant, or maybe just overconfident. Although is it really arrogance when you can do what you think you can.
If he were as bad a character that the modern day historian claim he was.
(There is a theory that Reno and Benteen set him up to fail.)

His orders were vague, he and the seventh Calvary was supposed to meet up with General Terry sometime. He was offered gattlin guns. Some historians think that this might have saved him. There are three problems with this the terrain is incredibly hilly with a lot of coolies making it hard to get them set up. A gattlin gun weighed over a ton and would slow down a Calvary unit (the Calvary Unit of the 19th century were considered to be akin to our special forces today. The Calvary units were quick attack units. Third, black powder had a tendency to jam regularly. I wouldn't have wanted them.

I think that he found the village to soon. The rule of thumb if you could see an indian They KNEW you were there. I will grant you that he didn't listen to his scouts, but the number of warriors in the village I don't think anyone would have comprehended. There is a possibility that he was going to fight a holding action. Trying to hold out tell the three columns of Sheridan and the other Generals. Sheridan and the other two Generals were held up they weren't where they were late because they encountered other Nations on the way.

The morning of the battle Custer divided his command of about 100 troopers into three commands under Reno and Benteen. (Later in Reno's military career his was court martialed for assaulting his commanding officers daughter). This was so they could surround the village. The last order out from Custer was for Benteen to "bring packs big village." He didn't. Reno was surrounded for a time but when one of his sergeants brains were blown out Reno took off running.

Here is the victor's perspective. Months before the Battle Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers falling into the village. The interesting part of the vision for me was the warning not to take anything from the soldiers or they would loose the war. His warning was headed. (Kinda harkens back to Joshua and the fall of Jericho when he warned them not to take anything, but Achan did and they lost the next battle Joshua 6-7 Makes me ponder what would have happened if the Nations would have heeded the warning).

Crazy Horse was a very formidable General. The terrain really lent a hand to the way the Lakota, Ogalla, and Cheyenne fought. It gave the warriors a lot of cover. The yellow boy Winchester 10 round magazine repeating rifle for close quarter fighting is very formidable against a single shot Spencer carbine. Not including recurve bows. The warriors were trained from an early age to fight one-on-one. The stiff formations of the Calvary didn't work well because the Warrior fought outside of the box.

The importance of this can still be seen today. 1893 the massacre at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge was perpertraited by the seventh Calvary. During the 1970's American Indian Movement (AIM) took over a government building at Pine Ridge. Leonard Peltier allegedly killed two FBI agents. The problem is the FBI story of what happened doesn't really have an aire of honesty to it. Leonard Peltier has spent more time in prison than most murders. To this day Pine Ridge is the poorest place in the country.

Our fore father set up the reservation system to fail. My family and I disagree on this, but we have treaties that we have to fulfill. Our forefather set a system where the Nations would be so dependent that the Feds shipped the kids off to distant government schools where they would beat the children if they spoke in their language. We destroyed their hope. That is the reason alcoholism and suicide is so prevalent on reservation.

Right now some of the Nations are trying to sue the government over past royalties that haven't been payed over the last century.

Was it General Custer's fault? I don't know. Glory hound yes, but he did his job. If his troops weren't all killed it wouldn't have given them the ralling point to actually finish the war. In a since, Custer has his immortality.
We only a hand full battles but the Nations actually somehow lost the war. Just something for you to think about.

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PROGRAM, SITTING BULL’S DECISION: 125 YEARS LATER,
TO BE HELD AT MISSOURI-YELLOWSTONE CONFLUENCE CENTER JULY 20

WILLISTON – A program observing the 125th anniversary of the surrender of Lakota Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull will take place this Thursday, July 20 at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center. Located 21 miles southwest of Williston, the Confluence Center is part of the Fort Buford State Historic Site, also managed by the State Historical Society of North Dakota (SHSND).

Fort Buford was where Sitting Bull ended his exile in Canada and surrendered his rifle to Major David H. Brotherton on July 20, 1881.
The program, Sitting Bull’s Decision: 125 Years Later, will begin at 7 p.m. at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center, located one-half mile east of Fort Buford. Refreshments will be available following the program.

The program will begin at 7 p.m. with music by Lakota Thunder, a drum group based on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota, followed by a presentation, "Sitting Bull: The Return and Aftermath," by SHSND Historian Greg Camp and SHSND Curator of Collections Mark Halvorson.

The lead members of Lakota Thunder, Courtney Yellow Fat and Dana Yellow Fat, are brothers who teach culture and language at Standing Rock Community High School and have been singing pow wow and ceremonial songs since they were young boys. They also host their own radio program on KLND in Little Eagle, South Dakota. Lakota Thunder released their first album, Veterans Songs, in July 2000 and received a Grammy nomination and a Nammy award for the album. The recording honors all American Indian warriors who have protected their lands, from the past to the present. Their second album, Way of Life, received a Nammy award as well, a collection of songs spanning the generations.

Camp’s and Halvorson’s presentation will begin after a flag song performed by Lakota Thunder. It will include a brief overview of the return of Sitting Bull and his family to the United States, their sojourn at Fort Randall, and finally their return to Standing Rock. A brief review of the problems of provenance with alleged Sitting Bull-related objects will also be discussed.
Following their presentation, Lakota Thunder will perform two additional songs, one of them memorializing Sitting Bull.

The years between the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the return of Sitting Bull to the United States saw great changes in American Indian policy. The reservation era, which had been proposed but only loosely enforced after the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, became the backbone of policy makers in Washington, D.C. by the 1870s. The Indian Reform Movement, which was behind the Peace Policy that evolved in the 1860s and 1870s, became more rigidly enforced in the wake of the Custer disaster in 1876 that nearly wiped out the U.S. Seventh Cavalry in what was then Montana Territory. Reform conferences at places like Lake Mohonk in New York saw the formation of plans that called for native peoples to be restricted to defined reservations where the triad of Christianity, farming, and education would act as "civilizing" agents for the populations there.

Based on the allotment of land in severalty, the new policy that would emerge would enforce the assimilation of Indians into white culture while at the same time destroying tribalism. When Sitting Bull returned from Canada, he entered a vastly different world than the one he had left less than a decade earlier. In that short period of time, the new life was replacing the old and in its wake littered the landscape with the remains of a way of life that would never again return.

Sitting Bull was born on the Grand River, in present day South Dakota, in the early 1830s. As a boy of 10, he was already a hunter of proven ability. When only 14, he accompanied his father in a war party against the Crow Indians and earned his first war honor by touching the body of a fallen enemy. As he grew older, Sitting Bull’s many deeds of valor enhanced his reputation, and he rapidly acquired influence in his band. He took an active part in the Plains Wars of the 1860s, and first became widely known to the whites in 1866, when he led a raid against the newly established post of Fort Buford. Sitting Bull’s camp in the buffalo country around the Powder and Yellowstone rivers became a rallying point for the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho who refused to accept life on the reservation.

This refusal led the U.S. Army to begin a campaign against Sitting Bull and his followers. Together with Lakota Sioux chieftain Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull forged the coalition that checkmated Brigadier General George Crook in the Battle of the Rosebud on June 17, 1876, and then annihilated Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and five companies of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn eight days later.

On July 20, 1881, Sitting Bull and 186 of his followers surrendered at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, ending an exile in Canada that had begun nearly five years earlier. After giving up their horses and weapons, Sitting Bull and his followers were taken to Fort Randall near present-day Pickstown, S.D., where they were held as military prisoners until they could return to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation without disrupting affairs at that agency.
At Fort Randall, Sitting Bull was treated with respect by the Army and by Indian leaders who came to seek his counsel. He and his people made many friends among the whites living at the post. Because of his association with the defeat of the Seventh Cavalry at the Little Bighorn, his mail, especially requests for his autograph, were voluminous.

On May 10, 1883, Sitting Bull and 187 of his followers were put aboard the steamboat, W.J. Behen, and sent home to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Before this, Sitting Bull had not experienced reservation life. He expected to be treated with dignity, but Standing Rock Indian agent James McLaughlin quickly disillusioned him. Sitting Bull was told that he would be treated in the same manner as the other Indians at the agency, and was instructed to plow a field and plant a crop.

In October 1883, Sitting Bull joined former President Ulysses S. Grant and others in commemorating the laying of the cornerstone of the new Territorial Capitol in Bismarck. He marched in the parade, addressed the crowd, shook hands and signed autographs.

In 1885, he appeared for a season with "Buffalo Bill" Cody’s Wild West Show. When the Ghost Dance Movement erupted among the heartsick Sioux in 1889-90, he became a supporter. The Ghost Dance was a religious ceremony that promised the return of traditional life ways, the return of the buffalo, and removal of white interference from Indian affairs. In 1890, agent James McLaughlin recommended that Sitting Bull be arrested, calling him a "malcontent." Sitting Bull informed McLaughlin that with or without his permission, he would leave the Standing Rock Agency to join the Ghost Dancers at Pine Ridge, S.D.

On the morning of December 15, 1890, a detail of 43 regular and special Indian police rode into Sitting Bull’s camp and arrested him. As the police led Sitting Bull from his cabin, a group of his supporters gathered and shots were fired. In the ensuing chaos, Sitting Bull and seven followers were killed, including his favorite son, 14-year-old Crow Foot, who had surrendered his father’s Winchester carbine to Major David H. Brotherton at Fort Buford nine years earlier.

Fort Buford was established as a one-company military post in 1866 to guard the trails west and serve as a major supply depot. At its peak during the Indian Wars of the late 1870s and early 1880s, it grew to a six-company post that occupied a 30-mile-square area. When the fort was decommissioned in 1895, it included more than 100 buildings and structures. Today, in addition to the Field Officer’s Quarters where Sitting Bull surrendered in 1881, only two other original buildings remain – the Officer-of-the-Day Building and the stone powder magazine. A nearby fort cemetery also still exists. During its 29-year history, Fort Buford was expanded twice – in 1867, using materials taken from the old Fort Union Trading Post site two miles west, and again in 1871.

The state acquired the Fort Buford property as a state historic site on June 22, 1931. Today, the site encompasses approximately 189 acres, including Confluence Park, where the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center is located.

For more information, call the Fort Buford State Historic Site at (701) 572-9034 or visit the State Historical Society of North Dakota’s web site at www.nd.gov/hist.
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3,000 posts, almost 19,000 views... This is the "stress test" thread..

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Originally Posted by jeff221

3,000 posts, almost 19,000 views... This is the "stress test" thread..

Better get the duct tape just incase

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