I havent read the book as of yet. I do have one comment or question for the previous reviewer and here it is. Why do you so freely mention and accuse the 7th cavalry of murdering and butchering women and children but fail to mention that the reason the 7th was out in 1866 and in the winter and into 1867 was because in about a years time the Indians attacked homesteads and murdered and raped and took prisoners of somewhere in the vicinity of 150 people.
Why isnt that never mentioned? Your talking about a raiding party that could number between 20 to upwards of a 200 warriors attacking little family homesteads with a mother and father and maybe a couple of kids.Your telling me that is all right but soldiers attacking a full village is genocide. Dont taslk to me about Black Kettles village being a innocent peaceful village because they werent. Yes, it is true black Kettle was a peace chief but his warriors wasnt and they went out on raiding parties all the time. A matter of fact one of the main leaders of Indians that went out on raids came from Black Kettle's village.These warriors brought back to the village plunder that they took on the raids and gave it to the people of the village.
Black Kettles own sister even said she warned Black Kettle about letting the warriors that went out on raiding parties not to let them to come back. Black Kettle could not or would not control his own warriors in his village. Dont forget at one time black Kettle was a well respected chief of the Cheyenne but by this time and for certain later on he was very much hated by a lot of the Cheyenne especially the Warriors. He even had his life threatend by by some of the warrior societies. Custer found the village by following the trail of a raiding party to the village. I think its time to tell both sides of the story. they were both good and bad on both sides but to portray the Indians as completely innocent and the whites as barbaric savages is not only not true its assinine.
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