Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course, which leads me to believe he is a brainwashed political hack and liar that is EFFECTIVLY HELPING A RACE WAR AND DIVISION IN THIS COUNTRY. When will you open your eyes to the lies?
Ken Burns is a liar, I'm not saying he never says the truth. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Jefferson knows he struggled with it. Why did no host on CNN push back? Because they are dumb.
1. What are the critical differences between the TWO accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre? 2. Why do you think the two sources provide such different interpretations of this event?
@@rosasmith9835I like how the comment that started this thread says "hopefully never repeat those wrongs against any other people" and when I point out that indigenous people are being replaced right now your attitude changes to "Its karma". You obviously dont have any problems which holding two contradictory beliefs at the same time. And karma for what exactly?
Since becoming an adult, I have discovered that much of what we were taught in school was incorrect, skewed or omitted. I have since uncovered the dark and tragic side of our Nation's history, which most Americans either deny or remain ignorant of. 2025, and the years to follow, will be a dark chapter in our history as well.
@@johnrichardson5858 so are white people. Regarding religion that you all worship country Middle East. I needed to have culture vulture that you all found fit to emulate. And it is to have a card to call him the Creator
I don't think anyone who's studied the plains wars in the post WW2 era ever called it anything but the Sand Creek Massacre. "Crimson Plains," SLA Marshall's seminal work on the era from the early 1960s refers to it as such. Not sure where the notion that contemporary historians ever overlooked that. More likely the sudden emergence of a socially conscious general public as the new fashion finally took interest in these things. Because they didn't know about it, they assume that it was somehow suppressed. No, it wasn't suppressed, you all just never cared enough to take a look. What has been scrupulously overlooked is that the Regular Army detachment that was with Chivington refused his orders to attack. When the reports of that detachment's commanding officer made it back to Leavenworth, the army immediately convened an investigation, which recommended court martial for Chivington. Only his demobilization as a colonel of volunteers prevented him from being dragged into a military court, as he was no longer under their jurisdiction. He spent the rest of his life generally reviled and died in obscure loserhood. That Burns then states that it was somehow Federal policy to randomly massacre Indian encampments is balderdash. Such an assertion is not only bad scholarship, but dishonors an entire generation of frontier soldiers and officers who did everything they could to not only keep the peace between natives and migrants heading west during the 1850s, but also between the tribes themselves. See the events at Massacre Canyon in Nebraska for some insight into that. His use of the term "Citizen Soldier" is likewise off base. He knows full well that in our modern vernacular and perception that means National Guard, your neighbor down there street. Nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to Chivington's "command." In todays day and age those brigands would likely be incarcerated. That was a sly bit he snuck in there for the post-modernist shame effect, of which he has developed a habit of late. Likewise, the only reason Chivington's command was ever authorized was because Confederate forces had reached as far as Glorieta, NM and were really no more than a two week march from Denver. Confederates. Likewise they had sent emisaries to the Comanche and Kiowa hoping to incite them to attack settlements in Colorado in order to deny th Federal war effort the silver and beef that territory produced. So yea, you want to blame anyone for Sand Creek, it starts with the Confederacy, whithout whom Chivington would have remained an obscure, local blowhard. And lets not forget the Cheyenne raids on eastern Colorado settlements that led to Chivington taking to the field in the first place. Minor spats between groups of young Cheyenne men and radom traders or miners that turned into real massacres of innocent parties uninvolved in the original affront....which was the regular pattern of conflict out there. The tardiness for the site's inclusion as a property under Park Service management stems more from budget disagreements than any attempt at concealing anything. Ask anyone from the Park Service, getting the most basic things nescessary to continue the operations they have is like pulling teeth, never mind a large, new procurement like Sand Creek. There's confronting history (or maybe just paying attention to it for a change), and then there's using it as a whipping boy to stir up modern day division. Seeing too much of the latter these days.
that's some knowledge you have there. thanks for taking the time to write your lengthy comment. interested in knowing more about this subject. do you have any specific recommendations for sources of info other than internet research and libraries? thank you.
@@asbeautifulasasunset It's been a lifetime of reading anything I could get my hands on, visiting the actual sites, and having a nose for long out of print books I turn up in my travels. I can't even begin to remember them all. You just read dozens of books; from journals, to reports from indian agents, to contemporary histories, anthropology, etc, etc. It adds up. Do that enough and you can stitch together the intersecting complexities that led to these events. That period was a train wreck of colliding cultures and personalities, where the actions of one person could set off a chain reaction that set events in motion across the entire region.
@@Mis-AdventureCH Thank you for your reply. I forgot about travel! Only a few hours away from the area so I’ll go there next year. Attended a presentation yesterday evening that reacquainted me with SCM. It was great because two Indians attended the presentation and made corrections to some of the information. For example, Black Kettle did not sign a document further limiting the land that was to be “given” to the Arapaho and Cheyenne. Only one who signed it was drunk at the time… Figures. I did find a local resource that is going to be very helpful. There are online versions for some of the manuscripts I want to read. Two of my favorite authors are Vine Deloria, Jr. (We Talk, You Listen and Custer Died for your Sins) and Kent Nerburn (Neither Wolf nor Dog Trilogy). Really do wish Neither Wolf Nor Dog would supplant Lord of the Flies in high schools.
@@asbeautifulasasunset If you haven't read "Empire of the Summer Moon" I highly recomment. Very honest account of the Commanche in TX. The problem I see with the whole thing is that few people have the ability to step out of their own lives and experience and see the world through the eyes of others. Not easy in the every day of the here and now, even harder to do so with generations long since gone. You need a very deep background in the times all this took place in. Disease, for example. If you don't understand choldera, you're not going to be able to fully comprehend a big part of the reason people went west "in search of a better life." You're not going to understand the reaction of the Cheyenne to these new migratory routes. That's but one layer, and there's an infinite number of them.
Manifest Destiny was unconstitutional, and it was wrong. The American government did terrible things. I'm glad to hear that the natives are regaining some of their ancestral lands, and that their population has really been growing in recent years. Hopefully, the mistakes of the past, or at least some of them, can be fixed.
Sure was but it doesn't change the fact that Ken is liar and an obvious political hack not interested in the truth or healing. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course.
The real shameful violent history is that of the Stone Age people that Europeans found when they reached the Western Hemisphere, namely the people Columbus and others called Indians. They were constantly at war with their traditional enemies from other tribes. They were pushing young women down into volcanoes and cutting out the beating heart of war prisoners. Shamefully many millennia behind the advances in civilization that had been achieved by the people of the ‘Old World’. the Stone Agers, hardly geniuses, had neither the wheel, nor written language, nor metallurgy, but did have lots of violence. To this day, the places where their descendants are concentrated have the highest violent crime rates in the world.
I read D Brown's, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, as a teenager in the late '60s/early '70s. The tears flowed freely. Just one of many Wounded Knees, the one that comes to mind is how that same policy of the US government was perpetrated at My Lai. One does NOT repent, if one does not confess. The sins we've committed are coming back to revisit US. Payback is...well you know how that ends.
Wonderful documentary, just like what has happened in Canada! We must confront our past, admit the horrible acts done to Indigenous people before we can walk together as equals. And they finally deserve to be seen for the genocide that occurred in your country and ours.
But you got the land and became rich, native people lost the land and became relatively poor, confronting the past can give no land back to native people. It's fundamentally about the ownship of land property.
@@aofeizhang8735 we must first confront our past so that we can build the political momentum necessary to give what was unjustly taken back to its rightful owners - these two statements are not mutually exclusive - they go hand and hand as a road map to true justice and reconciliation... and even then the past cannot be undone, but we must always work to amend for the genocide and theft and address the current issues of our present
@@aofeizhang8735 It's also about the ownership of the Narrative, the Story, of whether the Story will contain the whole Truth or the sanitized version championed by the Triumphalists.
1. What are the critical differences between the TWO accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre? 2. Why do you think the two sources provide such different interpretations of this event?
I truly thank you for your Truth. Actually the truth about the past history of how native American was truly Treated by this racist American government.⚖️🗽
November 20, 2016 During the Battle of Backwater Bridge, at about 1 a.m., I was standing next to an Elder from Cheyenne River, and he taught me some Lakota. Nahahci Le Okunpi We are still here. I am direct descendent of James 1st, King of England. I am direct descendent of a signee of the Mayflower Compact. My story, from Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock, from building the greatest empire in modern history, to defending indigenous people from heirs of that empire, is my famlies immigration journey that still is alive, still evolving, still growing.
The first major, and to this day the largest, mass shooting in state history, and bare in mind we have an abnormally large amount of them. This event was no different than if a bunch of soldiers from Fort Collins loaded up armored vehicles, drove to the nearest reservation, and opened fire on everyone they saw. Innocent blood is innocent blood, regardless of time.
Rubbish. You must have got your total U.S. historical world view from Howard Zinn. We've been utterly steeped in this guilt crap ever since we were kids. Practically every historic U.S. male person with a European ancestry, since Christopher Columbus was labeled either greedy, racist, homicidal, or owned slaves All the other races are either ignored or portrayed as peaceable-pastoral people - pure nonsense.
@@meebrbey Apparently, just as long as it's your particular version of "the truth". The funny issue are groups that pontificate so much about "diversity" yet turns people out of higher education whose only brush with U.S. history is Zinn or Chomsky; they've never heard of McCullough, Brinkley, or Foote. One gets a real eye-opener when they read several versions of the same history.
The worst. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. How is this helping anything?
I was born in 1960. And our history teachers taught us of the sand creek massacre as well as other shameful treatment. I was not mislead as Ken is proposing
This is a left-wing talking point claiming that previous generations, like you and I, were not properly educated. And it is the responsibility of the younger generations to learn the things that our teachers "omitted" due to their explicit or implicit racism. These claims are demonstrably false.
I think he's talking about how it's not mentioned at all. I am apache displaced by said historical events, and am relearning all of the history that was NOT taught at all. I'm now 40 and just learning about this? Not to mention I am college educated, I hold a trade license, so lack of education is not the issue here. Why this is not spoken about more is beyond many of us. My feedback is not a "left winged" point of view -from south TX
Oh yes, Ken Burns!!! He is the perfect person, along with Jane Elliott and Tim Wise (only white people) who need to lead this discussion for America at this time. They can bring in other scholars as long as they are white and as long as they can prove without a doubt any statements made. White people, this is the assignment! Because, these people that have gone over the ledge, need you to bring them back into the fold. And, a tv station needs to give you the airtime, because this is cra cra and black people NOT going no where. Don’t get it twisted ✌🏽
Please do a series on how the American Indians fought wars between the different tribes, how they conquered other tribes, how the conquered were treated and how they took the land from other tribes. That would be informative and interesting.
I admire Ken for all his past works and fully appreciate shining a light on the damage done to native tribe of this land in the name of religion. I abhor the Washington Post for their politically swayed editorial presentations. I think they are using this good work to polish their image.
Ken Burns is a liar. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. I ask you James, how is this statement allowed to float on live air on CNN in 2023 after all we know about Jefferson. Would you like me to quote Jefferson? What else did he lie about? How is this lie helping anything?
I’ve learned more about U.S. history from Ken Burns and Lynn Novic than 18+ years in school. You’ll be richer if you watch these… The Civil War, WWII, Vietnam, The West, Jack Johnson, Central Park, Lewis and Clark, The National Parks, The Roosevelt’s, and Prohibition.
Pale Zombie: One of my American relatives of English origin loves reminding Americans that without native help there would not have been a Thanksgiving to celebrate. Then without Sekagawea the Corps of Discovery could have been wiped out.
I used to like his work until the Vietnam series, where he got so many facts incorrect and was blatantly biased on behalf of the communist. It was his first "documentary" of an era that viewers could still recall first hand. All of his work has been subsidized by the taxpayers of the United States of which he obviously despises. He's a grifter feeding the self loathing youth like yourself.
@@lindaminton That is a pretty harsh summary. He gathered the facts direct from those who fought the war, the communist bias as you call it were the first hand facts from the other side. The American involvement divided the nation when you remember the amount of anti war movements that sprung up in opposition to it escalating.
@@jimmcloughlin Of course there was strong anti war sentiment, especially from veterans organizations like the American Legion. However, it was the American left that rioted in cities and and attacked returning military in airports like LAX, facts that burn's downplayed or just omitted. He also didn't hesitate to show Nixon as a warmonger even though he had inherited the quagmire that was Vietnam from the Kennedy/ Johnson administration and got us out, yet burn's portrayed Johnson as a sympathetic character that had no other option than to send in more troops. Vietnam veterans were on the front lines of the global war to prevent the spread of communism, they had an honorable mission that burn's deliberately distorts to make the United States out as the villain.
I wish that every American citizen could visit this tragic site. I walked the ground there after reading the accounts of this massacre. I did so with such a heavy heart and tremendous sadness that rattled my soul. And, I was deserving of feeling that way. We all should. This is part of the CRT that needs to be taught in our schools and educate our youth/adults. I am a retired U.S. Army Officer (multiple tour combat veteran) and am deeply ashamed of many actions that this country and myself have been a part of. Please support One Nation Walking Together (a fantastic organization based in Colorado Springs, CO that assists our indigenous peoples). It's one way, of many, to do our best to make amends for the wrongs committed in the past. Patriotism = education of all facets of our nation...for all it's good and all of it's wrongs. It is the only way we can truly become better human beings on this planet. It is our DUTY to one another!
I visited the Bear River Massacre site( two markers on the side of the road) this summer after reading a short piece by Barry Lopez about it, seems it was the worst single day of all the killings ever done in our history against natives in the US. 300 + mostly women and children and of course warriors trying to defend them died in southern Idaho.
Truth & Reconciliation is the path to Healing ~ the first steps are painful to cleanse the wounds & give it air so the transformation to Healing can begin for All of US 👣🪶💜🌎
I disagree that we are the envy of the world. Maybe in countries trying to find a path to democracy, but not in countries who have healthy democracies.
Ken is not saying the right things. I was taught about that in school back in 1985. If he says they have taken it out of schools then he should be addressing the correct people and focus on them, not playing the historian saint for clicks.
I was married to a native American woman and lived on reservations for 27 years and can tell you the worst thing we ever did to the Indians was to put them on reservations and promise to take care of them forever. The policy turned a self sufficient people into dependent people and proud and brave people into degraded and lackadaisical people. It's long past time to relieve these people of having a governmental overlord and let them make or break it on their own.
America doesn't take care of them. Many live in abject poverty, reservations are lacking in basic infrastructure,(like running water), they're over-policed, etc., etc. Is that what you mean by taking care of them? Forget that, just treat them equally.
Oh Ken I have to remind you there were massacre's on both sides! tribes atttacked and killed homesteads, settlers, wagon trains, early in the 1800's before soldiers ever decended to protect the settlements!
Bull,our land was stolen! the government committed "GENOCIDE"against those that survived.The government has never accepted what they did to the native tribes, A Few SETTLER'S died,A few thousand Natives paid the price,We are still waiting for an "APOLOGY"!
You need to read more. This was a “holy war” meant to wipe out non christian peoples, who were not considered human unless they were converted. Settler imperialism. My distant relative emigrated to canada in the new france army to attack the iroqouis, but they were already suffering from small pox, and dying anyway. Instead he became a farmer. This was 1658. Read more.
I read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" when I was in 5th grade and was horrified. Later I read a lot more of the history of the various Indian Wars. Funny how they conveniently never mention Black Kettle had perpetrated similar massacres of his own when they retell this. Does it justify what happened at Sand Creek? Nope, not at all. But it DOES explain the sheer hatred visited on the indians there.
That's nice. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. How is this helping? What else did he lie about?
Own what? What have I as an individual done that I should feel guilt over? You own it, if you feel you ought to. But no, I am not guilty, culpable, or shamed by the deeds of another whom I had no part in encouraging them to do.
Next:"The haymarket affair.", or "haymarket massacre" as the rest of the world calls it. The reason why 1 May is labour day in so many countries and also the reason, why workers have no rights in your country. Greetings from Germany.
What they did was unacceptable but same goes to the massacres the Indians have done like fort William Henry the worst massacre from them in my opinion why focus on one groups unacceptable mistakes and focus on all
No one was convicted for Massacre; Demand conviction of Insurrections et al; with Punitive Damages paid, Attention: addressing Referrals of Political Correctness of Current History also imclude. You Offender's are sinfully sick... Keep America & the whole World Beautiful...
Lots of parallels today with migration from oppressive countries into Europe and USA. These people add to populations that are in decline and that is exactly what is needed in these countries to give them a boost to their economies. Yet, these countries continue to reject and withhold. Selfish and shortsighted.
It is ironic. Some of the same troops that freed the enslaved after the Civil War ended up creating and commiting genocide after "freeing" slaves. The whole story does need to be told. We ALL own it---not just one ethnic group, not just one race, not just one region---ALL of US.
Really? White people have been running the country since the beginning. The exception is Obama and he's half white. 🖕you. Black people aren't responsible for the BS that's happened to/in America.
@@John-mu2js Almost ALL of is are part "white," whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, no matter how painful that may be. During the Obama administration I directly experienced "black" discrimination against Hispanics in the workplace. We ALL can learn.
I'd love to dislike this, but my opinion no longer matters. Almost like it was specifically for this kind of bullshit that the dislike button was removed.
America, The Daughter of Babylon isn't going to repent. The Bible tells us that it won't and we're seeing how The Most High gave America 400 years to repent and generation after generation after generation carried on violently and viciously against the Indigenous and Blacks as well as against the rest of the earth. Now your judgment has reached to the heavens and your time has come to an end. Jeremiah 50 Jeremiah 50 Revelation 18 Isaiah 47 Genesis 15: 12-14 IT"S OVER
Absolutely! They are going to fight to the death over their right of their alternative facts as the truth. We have not forgotten "The Devil's Punchbowl" Concentration Camp of Nachez Mississippi. 20,000 freed slaves perished. Look it up. Shalom
@@johndavidwolf4239 But yet a majority of Europeans and others nations of the world copied altered and base their whole lives on it. That in itself says a lot.
I wanted to see Ken Burns at an event, bot it was sold out. I bought tickets from a scalper!! The guy I bought tickets from wanted them back. Indian giver!! I traded him some shiny beads, guns and fire water for his wigwam and car!! The restaurant was busy, but thankfully I made a reservation!!
Great idea Ken. Why don't you lead by example and donate 100% of everything you own to the native tribes? In fact, I want you to issue a social challenge to leaders like AOC, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to be the first to volunteer up their ill gotten gains. Go for it Ken. Let's see if you're willing to put your money where your mouth is.
Why should modern Germany be more patriotic and honest about their horrible past than the U.S. is about it's same level of horror, both past *and present?!*
The easiest critique by man is judging history by modern standards of morality without any context. Mr. Burn's lies by omission of important facts, but yet he continues to benefit from the taxpayers dime of a country he obviously despises.
2023: My 81 year old British Friend said she studied the Cheyenne Nation decades ago and quickly understood that the Cheyenne Nation were the Civilized People and it was the Europeans that were Savages.
This guy's a joke. Nothing wrong with reckoning with the past. There's something absurd with the agenda focus on the negative when that old glass is half to three-quarters full. Mr. Burns produced a series about how nearly a half million men died in reuniting the country and ending chattel race-based slavery, did a series on the West, then does one on baseball, then goes on some obtuse thing about how we're more "patriotic" due to stewing on all the historic negativity we can find. Two things of note: Connell's quip about people romanticizing Indians the further away from them they got, and Thomas Sowell's quip about the 1619 Project, you have to be pretty desperate if you have to reach back four centuries to find a grievance.
Yeah, there are plenty that will tell you that the centurys old sickness that came here with your boats; it persists to this day. And that is relevent to me and hundreds of thousands of others.
@@Drav_ven You're writing your tripe on the internet and likely drive a motor vehicle, live in a house, and benefit from found cures for the sickness you babble mindlessly about.
Two incredible books that detail the blatant mistreatment of Native American people by white colonizers and our government are: A Century of Dishonor by Helen Jackson and Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hamalainen. The "history" we were told in school was white-washed. Ken is right: "How we remember history is also a part of our history." Let's stop pretending that "Manifest Destiny" was a virtuous thing. As Don Henley wrote, "We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds, in the name of destiny and in the name of God."
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Let history speak honestly and without interruption…be strong enough to listen
lol, you won't find honest history here.
Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course, which leads me to believe he is a brainwashed political hack and liar that is EFFECTIVLY HELPING A RACE WAR AND DIVISION IN THIS COUNTRY. When will you open your eyes to the lies?
Good read "BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE" Thank you Mr. Burns.
Couldn't ever bare to read that book again.
That book was the first step to my conversion from conservative to a woke person who realises the faults of our nation and strives to to better.
Nationalism is often confused with Patriotism.
I think they are just different levels of the same thing.
This is true American history.
Ken Burns is a liar, I'm not saying he never says the truth. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Jefferson knows he struggled with it. Why did no host on CNN push back? Because they are dumb.
1. What are the critical differences between the TWO accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre?
2. Why do you think the two sources provide such different interpretations of this event?
And hopefully never repeat those wrongs against any other people! There is only one race, the HUMAN RACE
Well they are intentionally replacing Europe's indigenous populations right now.
@@NoName-t7e perhaps it's karma my pagan brother
@@NoName-t7e Europe's indigenous population was replaced over a thousand years ago.
@@rosasmith9835I like how the comment that started this thread says "hopefully never repeat those wrongs against any other people" and when I point out that indigenous people are being replaced right now your attitude changes to "Its karma". You obviously dont have any problems which holding two contradictory beliefs at the same time. And karma for what exactly?
@@Gretabpooh You should stick to commenting on things that happened in your own planet.
Since becoming an adult, I have discovered that much of what we were taught in school was incorrect, skewed or omitted. I have since uncovered the dark and tragic side of our Nation's history, which most Americans either deny or remain ignorant of. 2025, and the years to follow, will be a dark chapter in our history as well.
That’s why we will never know peace
"Never" is rather a long time.
Thank you Ken Burns for correcting misrepresented history. Its about time.
Finally indigenous people are being acknowledged
It would be nice if they did a special on all the contributions native people have had in the culture food and music
What culture? The fought and killed each other just like everyone else who is completely godless and worship spirits
@@johnrichardson5858 so are white people. Regarding religion that you all worship country Middle East. I needed to have culture vulture that you all found fit to emulate. And it is to have a card to call him the Creator
@@johnrichardson5858 ………you make me dread the future of this country. We can change as a nation but not with an awful attitude like that. 🤦🏼♀️
@@johnrichardson5858 so did you and your kind.
World War 1, World War 2, the "100years War", etc.
What contributions?
I don't think anyone who's studied the plains wars in the post WW2 era ever called it anything but the Sand Creek Massacre. "Crimson Plains," SLA Marshall's seminal work on the era from the early 1960s refers to it as such. Not sure where the notion that contemporary historians ever overlooked that. More likely the sudden emergence of a socially conscious general public as the new fashion finally took interest in these things. Because they didn't know about it, they assume that it was somehow suppressed. No, it wasn't suppressed, you all just never cared enough to take a look.
What has been scrupulously overlooked is that the Regular Army detachment that was with Chivington refused his orders to attack. When the reports of that detachment's commanding officer made it back to Leavenworth, the army immediately convened an investigation, which recommended court martial for Chivington. Only his demobilization as a colonel of volunteers prevented him from being dragged into a military court, as he was no longer under their jurisdiction. He spent the rest of his life generally reviled and died in obscure loserhood.
That Burns then states that it was somehow Federal policy to randomly massacre Indian encampments is balderdash. Such an assertion is not only bad scholarship, but dishonors an entire generation of frontier soldiers and officers who did everything they could to not only keep the peace between natives and migrants heading west during the 1850s, but also between the tribes themselves. See the events at Massacre Canyon in Nebraska for some insight into that.
His use of the term "Citizen Soldier" is likewise off base. He knows full well that in our modern vernacular and perception that means National Guard, your neighbor down there street. Nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to Chivington's "command." In todays day and age those brigands would likely be incarcerated. That was a sly bit he snuck in there for the post-modernist shame effect, of which he has developed a habit of late.
Likewise, the only reason Chivington's command was ever authorized was because Confederate forces had reached as far as Glorieta, NM and were really no more than a two week march from Denver. Confederates. Likewise they had sent emisaries to the Comanche and Kiowa hoping to incite them to attack settlements in Colorado in order to deny th Federal war effort the silver and beef that territory produced. So yea, you want to blame anyone for Sand Creek, it starts with the Confederacy, whithout whom Chivington would have remained an obscure, local blowhard.
And lets not forget the Cheyenne raids on eastern Colorado settlements that led to Chivington taking to the field in the first place. Minor spats between groups of young Cheyenne men and radom traders or miners that turned into real massacres of innocent parties uninvolved in the original affront....which was the regular pattern of conflict out there.
The tardiness for the site's inclusion as a property under Park Service management stems more from budget disagreements than any attempt at concealing anything. Ask anyone from the Park Service, getting the most basic things nescessary to continue the operations they have is like pulling teeth, never mind a large, new procurement like Sand Creek.
There's confronting history (or maybe just paying attention to it for a change), and then there's using it as a whipping boy to stir up modern day division. Seeing too much of the latter these days.
that's some knowledge you have there. thanks for taking the time to write your lengthy comment. interested in knowing more about this subject. do you have any specific recommendations for sources of info other than internet research and libraries? thank you.
@@asbeautifulasasunset It's been a lifetime of reading anything I could get my hands on, visiting the actual sites, and having a nose for long out of print books I turn up in my travels. I can't even begin to remember them all.
You just read dozens of books; from journals, to reports from indian agents, to contemporary histories, anthropology, etc, etc. It adds up. Do that enough and you can stitch together the intersecting complexities that led to these events.
That period was a train wreck of colliding cultures and personalities, where the actions of one person could set off a chain reaction that set events in motion across the entire region.
@@Mis-AdventureCH Thank you for your reply. I forgot about travel! Only a few hours away from the area so I’ll go there next year.
Attended a presentation yesterday evening that reacquainted me with SCM. It was great because two Indians attended the presentation and made corrections to some of the information. For example, Black Kettle did not sign a document further limiting the land that was to be “given” to the Arapaho and Cheyenne. Only one who signed it was drunk at the time… Figures.
I did find a local resource that is going to be very helpful. There are online versions for some of the manuscripts I want to read.
Two of my favorite authors are Vine Deloria, Jr. (We Talk, You Listen and Custer Died for your Sins) and Kent Nerburn (Neither Wolf nor Dog Trilogy).
Really do wish Neither Wolf Nor Dog would supplant Lord of the Flies in high schools.
@@asbeautifulasasunset If you haven't read "Empire of the Summer Moon" I highly recomment. Very honest account of the Commanche in TX.
The problem I see with the whole thing is that few people have the ability to step out of their own lives and experience and see the world through the eyes of others. Not easy in the every day of the here and now, even harder to do so with generations long since gone. You need a very deep background in the times all this took place in.
Disease, for example. If you don't understand choldera, you're not going to be able to fully comprehend a big part of the reason people went west "in search of a better life." You're not going to understand the reaction of the Cheyenne to these new migratory routes.
That's but one layer, and there's an infinite number of them.
Manifest Destiny was unconstitutional, and it was wrong. The American government did terrible things. I'm glad to hear that the natives are regaining some of their ancestral lands, and that their population has really been growing in recent years. Hopefully, the mistakes of the past, or at least some of them, can be fixed.
Sure was but it doesn't change the fact that Ken is liar and an obvious political hack not interested in the truth or healing. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course.
Manifest Destiny was built on Doctrine of Discovery.
The real shameful violent history is that of the Stone Age people that Europeans found when they reached the Western Hemisphere, namely the people Columbus and others called Indians. They were constantly at war with their traditional enemies from other tribes. They were pushing young women down into volcanoes and cutting out the beating heart of war prisoners. Shamefully many millennia behind the advances in civilization that had been achieved by the people of the ‘Old World’. the Stone Agers, hardly geniuses, had neither the wheel, nor written language, nor metallurgy, but did have lots of violence. To this day, the places where their descendants are concentrated have the highest violent crime rates in the world.
I read D Brown's, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, as a teenager in the late '60s/early '70s. The tears flowed freely. Just one of many Wounded Knees, the one that comes to mind is how that same policy of the US government was perpetrated at My Lai. One does NOT repent, if one does not confess. The sins we've committed are coming back to revisit US. Payback is...well you know how that ends.
One learns more from failure then success .
Wonderful documentary, just like what has happened in Canada! We must confront our past, admit the horrible acts done to Indigenous people before we can walk together as equals. And they finally deserve to be seen for the genocide that occurred in your country and ours.
But you got the land and became rich, native people lost the land and became relatively poor, confronting the past can give no land back to native people. It's fundamentally about the ownship of land property.
@@aofeizhang8735 we must first confront our past so that we can build the political momentum necessary to give what was unjustly taken back to its rightful owners - these two statements are not mutually exclusive - they go hand and hand as a road map to true justice and reconciliation... and even then the past cannot be undone, but we must always work to amend for the genocide and theft and address the current issues of our present
@@aofeizhang8735 It's also about the ownership of the Narrative, the Story, of whether the Story will contain the whole Truth or the sanitized version championed by the Triumphalists.
@@kipuvi9181what land is being given to who? Are you gonna give up your property.
1. What are the critical differences between the TWO accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre?
2. Why do you think the two sources provide such different interpretations of this event?
I truly thank you for your Truth. Actually the truth about the past history of how native American was truly Treated by this racist American government.⚖️🗽
November 20, 2016
During the Battle of Backwater Bridge, at about 1 a.m., I was standing next to an Elder from Cheyenne River, and he taught me some Lakota.
Nahahci Le Okunpi
We are still here.
I am direct descendent of James 1st, King of England.
I am direct descendent of a signee of the Mayflower Compact.
My story, from Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock, from building the greatest empire in modern history, to defending indigenous people from heirs of that empire, is my famlies immigration journey that still is alive, still evolving, still growing.
It was an evil muderouis moment of our American Military, of the Native Americans.
All lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee. A must read in all schools.
Probably banned in Florida....
A shameful episode in Colorado's history as well. Living near the site, many of us feel it deeply.
The first major, and to this day the largest, mass shooting in state history, and bare in mind we have an abnormally large amount of them. This event was no different than if a bunch of soldiers from Fort Collins loaded up armored vehicles, drove to the nearest reservation, and opened fire on everyone they saw. Innocent blood is innocent blood, regardless of time.
Yes it was a sad time for all even those white folk that were raped scalped and tortured to death by the Indians.
Been there. Glad I went, it's out of the way. Truly moving. Always, always important to learn the truth.
Great explanation of patriotism by Ken Burns!
... This took courage ... Kudos to you Mr. Burns.
This is the kind of history that the GOP doesn't want our children to learn. I think it is despicable to prevent the truth from being taught.
Rubbish. You must have got your total U.S. historical world view from Howard Zinn. We've been utterly steeped in this guilt crap ever since we were kids. Practically every historic U.S. male person with a European ancestry, since Christopher Columbus was labeled either greedy, racist, homicidal, or owned slaves All the other races are either ignored or portrayed as peaceable-pastoral people - pure nonsense.
I think it is despicable too ..to prevent the truth from being taught is going to be the downfall of humanity
@@meebrbey Apparently, just as long as it's your particular version of "the truth". The funny issue are groups that pontificate so much about "diversity" yet turns people out of higher education whose only brush with U.S. history is Zinn or Chomsky; they've never heard of McCullough, Brinkley, or Foote. One gets a real eye-opener when they read several versions of the same history.
@@johnchambers2996 is a racist.
With denial issues.
Take out the Trump trash.
@@LeonFelixRusso Reading and exploring differing points of view is not "racist" - you just might address your own racism.
Ken Burns is the best!
The worst. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. How is this helping anything?
I haven't had my coffee yet, a bit heavy this early in the morning. I'll check it out when in the right head space.☕
We are still here
Still fighting genocidal acts and white written history
Oh shut up every race has done this it has nothing to do with race but corrupt leaders who want to be rich and powerful
I was born in 1960.
And our history teachers taught us of the sand creek massacre as well as other shameful treatment. I was not mislead as Ken is proposing
This is a left-wing talking point claiming that previous generations, like you and I, were not properly educated. And it is the responsibility of the younger generations to learn the things that our teachers "omitted" due to their explicit or implicit racism. These claims are demonstrably false.
I think he's talking about how it's not mentioned at all. I am apache displaced by said historical events, and am relearning all of the history that was NOT taught at all. I'm now 40 and just learning about this? Not to mention I am college educated, I hold a trade license, so lack of education is not the issue here. Why this is not spoken about more is beyond many of us. My feedback is not a "left winged" point of view
-from south TX
@@johnwilson2487 left wing? Since when does right have a monopoly on the truth?
OH REALLY?
I was not taught of these atrocities when I was a youngster in school during the 60's.
They were not noble savages
Oh yes, Ken Burns!!! He is the perfect person, along with Jane Elliott and Tim Wise (only white people) who need to lead this discussion for America at this time. They can bring in other scholars as long as they are white and as long as they can prove without a doubt any statements made. White people, this is the assignment! Because, these people that have gone over the ledge, need you to bring them back into the fold. And, a tv station needs to give you the airtime, because this is cra cra and black people NOT going no where. Don’t get it twisted ✌🏽
Thanks.
Please do a series on how the American Indians fought wars between the different tribes, how they conquered other tribes, how the conquered were treated and how they took the land from other tribes. That would be informative and interesting.
For everyone’s info, there isn’t a country that doesn’t have this story. You try to make like America is the only country with this history.
I admire Ken for all his past works and fully appreciate shining a light on the damage done to native tribe of this land in the name of religion.
I abhor the Washington Post for their politically swayed editorial presentations. I think they are using this good work to polish their image.
This country is incapable of telling the truth.
Ken Burns is a liar. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. I ask you James, how is this statement allowed to float on live air on CNN in 2023 after all we know about Jefferson. Would you like me to quote Jefferson? What else did he lie about? How is this lie helping anything?
I’ve learned more about U.S. history from Ken Burns and Lynn Novic than 18+ years in school. You’ll be richer if you watch these…
The Civil War, WWII, Vietnam, The West, Jack Johnson, Central Park, Lewis and Clark, The National Parks, The Roosevelt’s, and Prohibition.
Drunk history is better than our school system. And fun to watch,
Pale Zombie: One of my American relatives of English origin loves reminding Americans that without native help there would not have been a Thanksgiving to celebrate. Then without Sekagawea the Corps of Discovery could have been wiped out.
I used to like his work until the Vietnam series, where he got so many facts incorrect and was blatantly biased on behalf of the communist. It was his first "documentary" of an era that viewers could still recall first hand. All of his work has been subsidized by the taxpayers of the United States of which he obviously despises. He's a grifter feeding the self loathing youth like yourself.
@@lindaminton That is a pretty harsh summary. He gathered the facts direct from those who fought the war, the communist bias as you call it were the first hand facts from the other side. The American involvement divided the nation when you remember the amount of anti war movements that sprung up in opposition to it escalating.
@@jimmcloughlin Of course there was strong anti war sentiment, especially from veterans organizations like the American Legion. However, it was the American left that rioted in cities and and attacked returning military in airports like LAX, facts that burn's downplayed or just omitted. He also didn't hesitate to show Nixon as a warmonger even though he had inherited the quagmire that was Vietnam from the Kennedy/ Johnson administration and got us out, yet burn's portrayed Johnson as a sympathetic character that had no other option than to send in more troops. Vietnam veterans were on the front lines of the global war to prevent the spread of communism, they had an honorable mission that burn's deliberately distorts to make the United States out as the villain.
Educational.
Has he ever made a documentary on how more violent American Indians were against other American Indians. Show both sides and mutilation they performed
He is another hand wringing lefty.
I wish that every American citizen could visit this tragic site. I walked the ground there after reading the accounts of this massacre. I did so with such a heavy heart and tremendous sadness that rattled my soul. And, I was deserving of feeling that way. We all should.
This is part of the CRT that needs to be taught in our schools and educate our youth/adults. I am a retired U.S. Army Officer (multiple tour combat veteran) and am deeply ashamed of many actions that this country and myself have been a part of.
Please support One Nation Walking Together (a fantastic organization based in Colorado Springs, CO that assists our indigenous peoples). It's one way, of many, to do our best to make amends for the wrongs committed in the past. Patriotism = education of all facets of our nation...for all it's good and all of it's wrongs. It is the only way we can truly become better human beings on this planet. It is our DUTY to one another!
Bullcrap.Crt is a dishonest guilt trip ...brought to indoctrinate the most vulnerable.
@@hedylamarr1688 you are special. It's sad that you don't read about or embrace the world. Have fun with your QAnon cult.
I visited the Bear River Massacre site( two markers on the side of the road) this summer after reading a short piece by Barry Lopez about it, seems it was the worst single day of all the killings ever done in our history against natives in the US. 300 + mostly women and children and of course warriors trying to defend them died in southern Idaho.
Some thing about Germany is that they fully acknowledge their history. They accept and own it. Unlike the UK, the US Turkey Belgium, France etc etc
Let's also not forget that millions upon millions of Italians have migrated to Mexico also...
That's familia... Here too.
Truth & Reconciliation is the path to Healing ~ the first steps are painful to cleanse the wounds & give it air so the transformation to Healing can begin for All of US 👣🪶💜🌎
VERY GOOD VIDEO
I disagree that we are the envy of the world. Maybe in countries trying to find a path to democracy, but not in countries who have healthy democracies.
you are the worst, trust me as a European 😂
Ken is not saying the right things. I was taught about that in school back in 1985. If he says they have taken it out of schools then he should be addressing the correct people and focus on them, not playing the historian saint for clicks.
I was married to a native American woman and lived on reservations for 27 years and can tell you the worst thing we ever did to the Indians was to put them on reservations and promise to take care of them forever. The policy turned a self sufficient people into dependent people and proud and brave people into degraded and lackadaisical people. It's long past time to relieve these people of having a governmental overlord and let them make or break it on their own.
America doesn't take care of them. Many live in abject poverty, reservations are lacking in basic infrastructure,(like running water), they're over-policed, etc., etc. Is that what you mean by taking care of them? Forget that, just treat them equally.
What do you propose? I don't have a clue either.
I didn't realize that I am a lackadaisical and downgraded person.
@@jonathanbush6197 Pay them what is owed.
😂 well i guess you know now, right? @@Drav_ven
Oh Ken I have to remind you there were massacre's on both sides! tribes atttacked and killed homesteads, settlers, wagon trains, early in the 1800's before soldiers ever decended to protect the settlements!
Bull,our land was stolen! the government committed "GENOCIDE"against those that survived.The government has never accepted what they did to the native tribes, A Few SETTLER'S died,A few thousand Natives paid the price,We are still waiting for an "APOLOGY"!
You need to read more. This was a “holy war” meant to wipe out non christian peoples, who were not considered human unless they were converted. Settler imperialism. My distant relative emigrated to canada in the new france army to attack the iroqouis, but they were already suffering from small pox, and dying anyway. Instead he became a farmer. This was 1658. Read more.
Getting rid of Jeff Bezos and all his property, would make us stronger as a nation
I read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" when I was in 5th grade and was horrified.
Later I read a lot more of the history of the various Indian Wars.
Funny how they conveniently never mention Black Kettle had perpetrated similar massacres of his own when they retell this.
Does it justify what happened at Sand Creek?
Nope, not at all.
But it DOES explain the sheer hatred visited on the indians there.
Why did you fail to detail General Shermans participation in the killing of Buffalo in your last documentary? Confederates, Indians & buffalo.
Thanks for using the word "complicated."
Me too, me too!!
Had no idea
What a shame but then there were many
We learn by our mistakes. And admitting them helps to heal
That's nice. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. How is this helping? What else did he lie about?
were that only true
Threehorses...thats the issue. Few white ppl.( & others) are ever willing to speak the truth. Too many hypocrites & liars.
I would love to see the government return Secret Sacred land May the good spirit be with you in these difficult times and always.
History repeating itself in Palestine
Pretty sure that they don't want things to change either
It's funny how much empathy people have for the Native Americans and not the descendants of American slaves
Own it, Peeps. Feel bad. It WAS bad.
'Own it, feel bad' please explain what that looks like
On Mani Padme Hum = May All Living Beings Be Free From Suffering
We need to acknowledge---ALL of US, but NOT wallow in a sorrow that tears is apart.
Own what? What have I as an individual done that I should feel guilt over? You own it, if you feel you ought to. But no, I am not guilty, culpable, or shamed by the deeds of another whom I had no part in encouraging them to do.
should the navajo own what they did to the hopi? Should the Iriquois own what they did to the Illini?
They need to talk about the way the Native American Indian has been treated from the 1960s till today!!! Like me😟 they made an example of me
Tell your story.
learn from Germany....so simply and human 🤍
... If you must hate ... Hate Social Injustice.
i agree, hold democrats accountable for letting murderers go free
@@Obamas_Nipple ... You're the kind of "person" people pray "Darwin's Law" goes to visit.
@@jaimelaureano6649 youre the kind of person that makes warning labels on chemicals a requirement... dummy
@@Obamas_Nipple nah, that's trump.
Thank you for this. Can’t wait to share with my son❤️
Redrum! Plain and simple.
The cruel rea;ity is that given the chance it would happily happen again and again
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And let’s hear about all of the massacres the Indians committed against other tribes
Next:"The haymarket affair.", or "haymarket massacre" as the rest of the world calls it. The reason why 1 May is labour day in so many countries and also the reason, why workers have no rights in your country. Greetings from Germany.
Or Ludlow, or Lattimore, or Blair Mountain, or Everett...ad infinitum.
America has always been a genocidal nation, they practice the same foreign policies today.
Thank You, Mr. Ken!
In history theres winners and losers 🇺🇸
thank you.
United States census of your people is currently estimated to be 57% of the entire population as of this year.
Get ready to lose.
Big Frank, you sound like one of those losers!!!!!
@@jhgust hahahahahahaha
@@rosasmith9835 buy bullets
What they did was unacceptable but same goes to the massacres the Indians have done like fort William Henry the worst massacre from them in my opinion why focus on one groups unacceptable mistakes and focus on all
"Focus on all" means what exactly?
@@jonathanbush6197 it's always "all " when they get called out and don't have a lie to try to dispute it..it's called false equivalency
No one was convicted for Massacre; Demand conviction of Insurrections et al; with Punitive Damages paid, Attention: addressing Referrals of Political Correctness of Current History also imclude. You Offender's are sinfully sick... Keep America & the whole World Beautiful...
Agreed.
Great documentary.
Lots of parallels today with migration from oppressive countries into Europe and USA. These people add to populations that are in decline and that is exactly what is needed in these countries to give them a boost to their economies. Yet, these countries continue to reject and withhold. Selfish and shortsighted.
That can be said of nearlt every nation on earth a spmetime in their history, get a damned life!!!!
It is ironic. Some of the same troops that freed the enslaved after the Civil War ended up creating and commiting genocide after "freeing" slaves. The whole story does need to be told. We ALL own it---not just one ethnic group, not just one race, not just one region---ALL of US.
Really? White people have been running the country since the beginning. The exception is Obama and he's half white. 🖕you. Black people aren't responsible for the BS that's happened to/in America.
No.
None of us own it, unless you were there.
Ridiculous.
@@John-mu2js Almost ALL of is are part "white," whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, no matter how painful that may be. During the Obama administration I directly experienced "black" discrimination against Hispanics in the workplace. We ALL can learn.
@@kissthesky40 you”own it” if you perpetuate the Theft of Indigenous Lands, Resources, Justice and Liberty!!!!!
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Get off it. That crap is so 2017.
Victimhood is a liability.
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and giving yourself a thumb up.
grow up.
I'd love to dislike this, but my opinion no longer matters.
Almost like it was specifically for this kind of bullshit that the dislike button was removed.
bingo
America, The Daughter of Babylon isn't going to repent. The Bible tells us that it won't and we're seeing how The Most High gave America 400 years to repent and generation after generation after generation carried on violently and viciously against the Indigenous and Blacks as well as against the rest of the earth. Now your judgment has reached to the heavens and your time has come to an end.
Jeremiah 50
Jeremiah 50
Revelation 18
Isaiah 47
Genesis 15: 12-14
IT"S OVER
Absolutely! They are going to fight to the death over their right of their alternative facts as the truth. We have not forgotten "The Devil's Punchbowl" Concentration Camp of Nachez Mississippi. 20,000 freed slaves perished. Look it up.
Shalom
"The Bible" is just the opinion of a small group of people who lived in a very different time.
@@johndavidwolf4239 But yet a majority of Europeans and others nations of the world copied altered and base their whole lives on it. That in itself says a lot.
@@le7mule21 ; Is that supposed to be a good thing?
@@johndavidwolf4239 The question is why? Egypt, India, Europeans and Asia had their own gods and religions.
it still belongs to the whiteriver ute
This is why you don't give the govt the sole ability to defend its citizens.
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What's the saying? History is written by the victors?
In our case, I guess that translates to "history is ignored by the victors...and don't dare anyone try to set the record straight".
I wanted to see Ken Burns at an event, bot it was sold out. I bought tickets from a scalper!!
The guy I bought tickets from wanted them back. Indian giver!!
I traded him some shiny beads, guns and fire water for his wigwam and car!!
The restaurant was busy, but thankfully I made a reservation!!
Great idea Ken. Why don't you lead by example and donate 100% of everything you own to the native tribes? In fact, I want you to issue a social challenge to leaders like AOC, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to be the first to volunteer up their ill gotten gains.
Go for it Ken. Let's see if you're willing to put your money where your mouth is.
Why should modern Germany be more patriotic and honest about their horrible past than the U.S. is about it's same level of horror, both past *and present?!*
Then leave
bullshit
Oh, now you've done it. The cornflakes are crying in their milk already.
Burns now needs to do something on the 1619 Project. Don't stop at Sand Creek. Walk your talk Ken.
i find it interesting we never talk about the bad things the indians did.
Like defend the land that they had occupied for centuries from foreign aggressors?
The easiest critique by man is judging history by modern standards of morality without any context. Mr. Burn's lies by omission of important facts, but yet he continues to benefit from the taxpayers dime of a country he obviously despises.
Seems you can't handle the truth -- true snowflake.
Thank you ( for the education).
I'm sorry did we not have a 500 year war?
Nah, there is a clear difference between war and genocide. Current events have shown a clear distinction.
2023:
My 81 year old British Friend said she studied the Cheyenne Nation decades ago and quickly understood that the Cheyenne Nation were the Civilized People and it was the Europeans that were Savages.
This guy's a joke. Nothing wrong with reckoning with the past. There's something absurd with the agenda focus on the negative when that old glass is half to three-quarters full. Mr. Burns produced a series about how nearly a half million men died in reuniting the country and ending chattel race-based slavery, did a series on the West, then does one on baseball, then goes on some obtuse thing about how we're more "patriotic" due to stewing on all the historic negativity we can find. Two things of note: Connell's quip about people romanticizing Indians the further away from them they got, and Thomas Sowell's quip about the 1619 Project, you have to be pretty desperate if you have to reach back four centuries to find a grievance.
Yeah, there are plenty that will tell you that the centurys old sickness that came here with your boats; it persists to this day. And that is relevent to me and hundreds of thousands of others.
@@Drav_ven You're writing your tripe on the internet and likely drive a motor vehicle, live in a house, and benefit from found cures for the sickness you babble mindlessly about.
Genocide
this was one piece of a larger genocide cycle.
Two incredible books that detail the blatant mistreatment of Native American people by white colonizers and our government are: A Century of Dishonor by Helen Jackson and Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hamalainen. The "history" we were told in school was white-washed. Ken is right: "How we remember history is also a part of our history." Let's stop pretending that "Manifest Destiny" was a virtuous thing. As Don Henley wrote, "We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds, in the name of destiny and in the name of God."
The Indians, they sure love their liquor
You watch too many John Wayne movies
G A Z A
Nothing shameful about being the conqueror
i wish he would do something on Teddy Roosevelt