Confiscate My Rifle at Wounded Knee
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lol wat? Bro, the Indians were dancing to their gods to enact a white genocide while being given endless handouts from white people. This was around the same time that natives were cashing in woodfire recipes at record low prices and killing livestock of settlers while the government was trying to get the indians off welfare. Muh fucking peaceful Pocahontas people.
Skip to 44:10 if you want an account of what ACTAULLY happened. Short version: they refused to turn in a rye sucker who was killing and robbing settlers and proceeded to gun down soldiers, firing first after a lengthy speech by one of the tribal about killing white men.
hahaha, i was making a point from his ignorant perspective. Pointing out the irony in his behavior, like would he be saying that about his tribe in taking away their weapons.
And here's the official Army account (Atlas of the Sioux Wars):
You forget the part where they were starving, and this is not what happened at all (there was no attempt to arrest anyone in particular but just a scuffle over one rifle with a deaf guy leading to a discharge, after most rifles have been handed over, there was no "lengthy speech" only one guy dancing around and shouting in a trance, and "robbing soldiers" was capturing weapons to shoot back, at first using knives in the melee in the gunsmoke because again they have been disarmed before they were fired upon and actually the soldiers also likely hit each other).
The guy made up his story, pulled it from his ass.
Here's one actual account (Encyclopedia Britannica):
In the mentioned aftermath ambush, they were trapped in a narrow canyon and would have been massacred in turn if the (other) cavalry didn't come to rescue. This was less then 24 hours later. They were some really poor soldiers under really bad command.