“Our History Is The Future” ~ Nick Estes = Yup! ~ Pequot Massacre at Thanksgiving to Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Repression today: Dedicated to my HIST 5: ‘History of the Americas’ students at LA Southwest College [ACADEMIC FREESTYLE]
“Our History Is The Future” ~ Nick Estes = Yup! ~ Pequot Massacre at Thanksgiving to Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Repression today: Dedicated to my HIST 5: ‘History of the Americas’ students at LA Southwest College [ACADEMIC FREESTYLE]
This informative video Seems to have done a ‘spot on’ job based on what I have learned over the decades and first learned at 18 as aa freshman at UC San Diego + outstanding animation – helps with recalling historical knowledge immensely in my educational experience.
Stating the facts as they existed and exist HAS TO BE THE AIM to be most credible…otherwise what? are you doing?
But, as Little Crow had warned his angry young men when they demanded he lead them to war, the Americans were as thick as locusts in flight: “Count your fingers all day long and white men with guns . . . will come faster than you can count.
The war tore apart kinship and other relationships that had evolved over years as Dakota people intermarried and coexisted with white traders and neighbors. Families of mixed heritage faced divided loyalties. Dakota warriors killed more than one thousand settlers. But, as Little Crow had warned his angry young men when they demanded he lead them to war, the Americans were as thick as locusts in flight: “Count your fingers all day long and white men with guns . . . will come faster than you can count.” American troops quelled the “Great Sioux Uprising.” About seventeen hundred Sioux were marched to Fort Snelling and confined in a wooden stockade. Four hundred Indians were put on trial for murder, and thirty-eight were eventually executed at Mankato in the largest public hanging in American history.25 Some Dakota refugees fled west to join their Lakota relatives on the Plains.”
Source = First Peoples, p. 314
POIGNANT ARTICLE ~ READ:
The Horrible History of Thanksgiving
Before you fill your plate, please remember why we mark this day.
Who was ‘Squanto’? was my immediate first question since “Squanto = No Bueno!
#DrClayborneSayings
For Squanto + Massasoit (sachem = chief) Start at minute 33 –> for Squanto content only = Not a good documentary overall in my view.
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My longest title ever = yet had to get it all in ijs 🙂 “”Our History Is The Future” ~ Nick Estes = Yup! ~ Pequot Massacre at Thanksgiving to Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Repression today: Dedicated to my HIST 5: ‘History of the Americas’ students at LA Southwest College ”
Thanks for the inspiration = motivation to get you The Best knowledge I can locate and just happen across that can Enhance Your Mind!”
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