It was the this officer telling what he didn't understand (as he was dying). He didn't know customs, he didn't know the language, he was scared (both sides were increasingly scared) in the chaos of a moment that he and other officers created a needlessly extremely tense situation, and had their weapons already readied to fire on his orders too (which terrified the older Indians who decided to surrender all weapons after all, but this obviously didn't end up well). Which happened, among other reasons, because they brought only one official interpreter and didn't even bring their own Indian scouts to the meeting.

That's similar how the feds didn't care about what they dismissed as "bible babble" and so didnt bring any religious experts to Waco as advisors in negotiations and planning, they instead brought tanks against those people. And they have brought tanks to Wounded Knee 2 too for that matter. And likely shot their own man, because it's a tradition.

Also he might have been even still drunk when it all happened.

Do you just pretend you can't understand this now? Do you now roleplay as him to assume the worst, even if you know what really happened there unlike he did then (causing a bloodbath which costed him his own life)? Or are you just so contrarian, or so stubborn in your mistakes, or simply trolling and wasting my time?