Long, but an interesting account

[Digit]

Yes, but I thought they might have been reinterred Min. The reason I asked was if this was one of the sites where they fell it might help me with understanding the geography of the pics.

Roy.

[gunny]

Reno attacked the north edge of the camp. Gall, a Cheyenne chief had his tent at that edge. In the initial attack by Reno---they killed the Gall family of two wives and three children. Azzholes Custer got what they deserved.

[Minimalist]

Hey there, gunny. How've you been?


Let Chris Rock explain what happened to the Indians.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTEjiFEaIy8



NSFW - or around kids - or around anyone who has no sense of humor!

[Rokcet Scientist]

Let Chris Rock explain what happened to the Indians.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTEjiFEaIy8


NSFW - or around kids - or around anyone who has no sense of humor!

Unfortunately no subtitles...

[Minimalist]

It's English.....more or less.

[Rokcet Scientist]

It's English.....more or less.

Really?
You could have fooled me!

[Minimalist]

As I've pointed out to you before, you don't live here.

[Rokcet Scientist]

As I've pointed out to you before, you don't live here.

Would I get subtitles if I did?

Last week I called a helpdesk and was served by someone with a strong Hindu accent. A half hour ago I talked to someone on another helpdesk with a strong Russian accent. Their English is intelligible, although they don't "live there". As opposed to that of the 'bros in the hood' who do "live there".
Ironically the bros think they speak a world language, a lingua franca, while defacto few outside 'the hood' can make heads or tails of their jive...

[Minimalist]

No, subtitles won't help you. Obviously, you are out of step with the world.

Allow Bill Maher to give some examples/translations. It may be of assistance.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMUJ_6uxSM0

[Rokcet Scientist]

Obviously, you are out of step with the world

The hood ain't the world by a 1000 miles, bro...
And if the choice is between 1 billion people with whom I can communicate because everybody makes an effort, and 100,000 stuck up brothers who don't give a fuck, then my choice is easy.

Dey is out of step wiv the world! Not the other way around.
It is also very infantile language use. What little kids don't have 'secret languages'? We all did, didn't we? But most outgrow that phase.
Not the bros. Dey is stuck in the infantile phase... Actually a case of arrested development!

[gunny]

According to Indian accounts, soon after the battle, many of the Custer killed themselves, rather than capture, with a Colt Model 1873 .45 Colt with a shot in the right temple. Custer had such a wound, as did many investigated after the battle. Capture by Indians, at that time, was not an option. All downhill for the Indians after that terminating with Wounded Knee when hundreds were destroyed by soldiers using the newly invented automatic cannon.

[kbs2244]

Gunny:

Remember the old saying that
“History is written by the victors?”

That is true of both a battle and a war.

Who recorded those “Indian accounts” and how could they be verified?
The Indians had a history of telling the white man what he wanted to hear.

If I was one of those on the winning side of that battle I would have made sure any and every white man was real dead.
The last thing I would want was giving one of them with a bad memory a second chance at the next battle.
I would expect they knew a US Calvary man would not make a very good slave, and they knew big reinforcements were on the way.
They just isn’t have the time for a good old fashioned victory party with all the usual torture.

Those wounds may have been self inflicted, but they could have just as easily been Indian inflicted.
Killing an enemy with his own weapon has a certain poetic justice to it.

[Digit]

Just to add my two pennorth kb, all that you say may well be spot on. But I do find it rather difficult to picture a Sioux warrior walking up to a wounded Cavalry trooper and getting close enough for a shot to head!
It sounds distinctly dangerous to me.

Roy.

[Rokcet Scientist]

they knew big reinforcements were on the way.

So they made sure to infuriate these "big reinforcements" by killing every last man?
Doesn't make sense.

[gunny]

Did not learn of the reinforcements until the morning after the battle. The suicides were related by several tribes in different areas of the battle. Some could not speak the same language. Should have brought the Gatling Gun, or a few F4s.