Re: I blame our loss of freedoms on The Great Emancipator "Honest" Abe

One could post some revealing massaging of history during the "war" (on Native Americans) for the great plains too...

the saying "War on fill-in-the-blank" can be used to garner public support for anything... even the genocide of a race.

What is the "War on Terror"?

In describing the Battle of Blue Water, September 3, 1855, Sandoz recounts, "The dead lay thick, the children hacked and gashed through with swords, many shot and blown to pieces, women cut up too, or with their bodies torn" (77). All the dead women had their "dresses lifted up over their heads and the soldiers had cut out their genitals" (Sandoz 77). Soldiers had also cut the fetuses out of their pregnant mothers, leaving them on the ground to die side by side. These violent practices became the distinguishing mark of Captain Harney. Captain Harney and his soldiers continued to practice this brutal mutilation on the men, women and children, often parading the private parts of the dead Indians at the fort or in the barrooms. Many whites became outraged at hearing this, and papers began calling Captain Harney "Squaw Killer" (Sandoz 82). But within weeks, in order to minimize Captain Harney's actions and maintain support from the public, the same papers began running false stories of Indians burning people alive and mutilating white women and children in the same manner. Captain Harney was not the only commander that planned and initiated the genocide of the Indians, however. Many others were also responsible for this type of behavior, General Custer and Captain Reno among them.


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The whitewashed history taught in schools is the "victors" story; hiding, or at minimum, failing to mention the crimes against humanity\atrocities committed.

grz-