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Date Posted: 12:55:33 06/27/01 Wed
Author: Keely
Subject: No grudes :o)

150 years ago it was announced that Custer and all his men were dead upon the Little Big Horn Valley... those heathen savages killed them all... just horrible.

It never made the papers when Custer went into a peaceful camp and murdered elderly, women, infants and children... the men had been out on hunting scouts... This is one fact that is rarely found in history books.

I say, Custer went looking for trouble, and he found it...

It is a part of history... and it is true that of which does not kill us only makes us stronger.

I hold no grudes... I do feel sad that our history is filled with such things... it is just not white people, or Indians, or any race of people... it is the simple fact that there was a total lack of communication.

In reading old newspapers, and events of "Indian raids" I found what I feel is the perfect example of that lack of communication.

Money never did mean anything to a Indian... but it has great importance to a white person... the Plains Indians depended upon their buffalo for survival, white people seen a opportunity to make money for their survival. Indians seen buffalo hunters killing buffalo and letting the meat rot, taking only the hides... Indians began to get hungry, they wanted to protect their buffalo, their way of life, and so, they would kill white people... White people did not understand why the Indians killed them for no reason... that is how they saw it... Both sides trying to protect their way of life, neither communicating... the white people really had no idea that Indian people depended on buffalo to live, Indians did not understand the use of money...

I sure am glad I live 150 years later... I have many friends of all colors... without them I would be lost.. I am glad I can stand back and look at the past, I do not have to live it, but must remember it :o)

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Re: No grudes :o) -- charlie ky, 18:16:35 06/27/01 Wed
- Hey Charlie -- Keely, 23:00:22 06/27/01 Wed
  - Keely, How do you iron a mean shirt ? Do you -- BJ [ok], 07:43:40 06/28/01 Thu
    - I think you have to beat it WITH a rock, attitude adjustment. NT -- charlie KY, 18:45:49 06/28/01 Thu
      - Oh yeah -- Keely, 18:03:52 07/01/01 Sun
  - We all have our soap box's Keely... -- charlie KY, 18:43:53 06/28/01 Thu