Bury my heart

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I dont know if ya'll have read it but "Bury my heart at wounded knee" is just about the saddest thing I have ever read. It really puts on display just how evil mankind really is.
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Note that this is what the government did when the Res refused to be disarmed.... :evil:
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I read it years ago and still remember thinking how awful that massacre was.
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth, — you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.[38]

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Should be required reading in all high schools. Read it probably around early 80's. Sure changed my outlook. Along with Orwell.
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Yes a very sad but interesting book.
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I was blessed with a high school history teacher who made us read that, along with documentation of how the 'democratically elected' German government wound up becoming so perverse and violent.

I'm sure today such a teacher would be fired because she wasn't teaching 'critical race theory'.
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Since you guys are on a bummer, it's happening all over again ALL OVER THE EFFING WORLD! :( :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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1894cfan wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:54 pm Since you guys are on a bummer, it's happening all over again ALL OVER THE EFFING WORLD! :( :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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I don't consider it "being on a bummer" to confront the sins of our history.
As to our Native Americans, more than once I have been humbled by their great patriotism and love for this county after all they have suffered. Just go to a cemetery on any reservation, and kneel in gratitude at all the graves of the military veterans. Their warrior spirit is not dead. Yes, they are willing to fight and die for you and for me.
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I come from a family with a lot of Cherokee blood and am often moved by books on Native history but this book, it has affected me deeply. I can almost feel their loss in my soul
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We have Injuns in the woodpile here too, wvfarrier.

Wounded Knee is an ugly page of American history a lot of people would like to forget and obviously, a subject some here would prefer we don't discuss. But a little introspection, on a personal or national basis, never hurt anybody.

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The event was indeed tragic. But as to the evil that men do it is just one more of so many.

Growing up a fellow who worked with my dad had survived Dachau. A quiet man, more at hame with cows than people. I didn’t understand until later just what he had been through. The story of him and his fellow internees makes Wounded Knee pail by comparison.
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765x53 wrote: Mon Jan 17, 2022 2:31 pm
Right...I like that a lot 765x53.......it's all a one sided fantasy story told by liberals.

It's all in history...EVERY group of people have been massacred, abused, and enslaved by other groups of people.

History repeats itself and don't think for a minute OUR government WONT do it to you and me if given the chance.

Let law and order break down and see what your neighbor will do to you if they are starving and your not willing to give up your supplies.

When this pandemic gets into phase 5 or 6.....and it will, see how many of your "friends" or fellow "Christians" will deliver food to your table.

Mankind is inherently evil and self serving.

We are all living on the edge or civility and barbarism....and always have.....and always will.....

And that, my fine friends is why we have guns.

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