| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/04/28, 11:49 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Almost as soon as the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee was over, the battle to define what happened on that bleak December day began. For decades afterwards, the official line from Washington was that the actions of the 7th Cavalrymen were heroic. The White House and its allies in South Dakota had invested much political capital in seizing tribal land for US use, and using the army
to quell Native American resistance. What happened at Wounded Knee was promoted as a definitive end to these so-called "Indian wars", a final victory for the US
government.
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