Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

On the 141st anniversary of Custer's well-remembered demise, why is California genocide forgotten?

The following essay appeared last year on the 140th anniversary of one of the most discussed conflicts in U.S. history. And one of the most distorted. I am repeating it with a few tweaks—MB.

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Today marks the 141st anniversary of the Little Big Horn Battle, known as Custer’s Last Stand to Americans at the time and ever afterward. Remembered as the Battle of the Greasy Grass among the Lakota (Sioux), Cheyenne and Arapahoe, it’s hard to overstate how much the 7th Cavalry’s defeat in the hills of Montana that June day in 1876 affected the nation then and how it has shaped and reshaped subsequent views of both Custer and American Indians.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/25/1675164/-On-the-141st-anniversary-of-Custer-s-well-remembered-demise-why-is-California-genocide-forgotten

 

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