150 years ago...from the Dakota War of 1862....we remember this...

[Surya Gayatri]

38. Thank you so much for posting this documentary, yellerpup...

How skewed the teaching of US history has been in favor of the victorious White Man version. I grew up in Nebraska, surrounded by Native American place names, just south of the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations and practically next door to the Omaha Reservation.

What a damning indictment of the history taught in my schools, that I only learned the truth about the treatment of the plains First Nation peoples when I got to Europe.

One of the most shameful episodes in our history, among many others.

Not long ago, during a trip back to Nebraska, I visited Fort Robinson and the Red Cloud Indian Agency, where Crazy Horse was killed in September 1877 after surrendering to the US Army.

More tragedy followed:
"In January 1879, Chief Morning Star (also known as Dull Knife) led the Northern Cheyenne in an outbreak from the agency. Because the Cheyenne had refused to return to Indian Territory, where they believed conditions were too adverse for them to survive, the army had been holding them without adequate food, water or heat during the severe winter to try to force them into submission. Soldiers hunted down the escapees and killed most over the next several weeks. The event marked the end of the Sioux and Cheyenne Wars in Nebraska."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Robinson

Never did I hear a whisper of this during all of my school years. And I grew up practically right next door. Sad commentary...