Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Wounded Knee an actual, literal slaughter? The US is known to heavily decorate people who commit atrocities for the feds. The sniper who shot an unarmed mother at Ruby Ridge comes to mind.
It's been a while since I've read about it, but as I recall, tensions were mounting between the Natives and the whites. Many thought, as had often happened, that the Natives would start attacking white settlers again. An attempted arrest of Sitting Bull by Native police officers went wrong, leading to multiple people getting shot to death, including Sitting Bull. When the US military caught up with this group of hundreds of Natives, they started to confiscate their firearms. At some point while this was going on, some kind of Native shaman resisted and several other Natives opened fire on the U.S. military. More Natives started grabbing the confiscated rifles and firing, which led to a huge massacre. It's a pretty fucked up situation all around, but I would say not nearly as cut-and-dry evil as the Ruby Ridge situation. Still really sad that many innocent people ended up getting killed .
Yea. Definitely different than how the movie has it. I meant to look up the actual story but never did. That discussion between Miles and Sitting Bull is still very good
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Wounded Knee an actual, literal slaughter? The US is known to heavily decorate people who commit atrocities for the feds. The sniper who shot an unarmed mother at Ruby Ridge comes to mind.
It's been a while since I've read about it, but as I recall, tensions were mounting between the Natives and the whites. Many thought, as had often happened, that the Natives would start attacking white settlers again. An attempted arrest of Sitting Bull by Native police officers went wrong, leading to multiple people getting shot to death, including Sitting Bull. When the US military caught up with this group of hundreds of Natives, they started to confiscate their firearms. At some point while this was going on, some kind of Native shaman resisted and several other Natives opened fire on the U.S. military. More Natives started grabbing the confiscated rifles and firing, which led to a huge massacre. It's a pretty fucked up situation all around, but I would say not nearly as cut-and-dry evil as the Ruby Ridge situation. Still really sad that many innocent people ended up getting killed .
understood. that's definitely different from how Hollywood likes to depict it, but that makes more sense.
Yea. Definitely different than how the movie has it. I meant to look up the actual story but never did. That discussion between Miles and Sitting Bull is still very good
That sounds way closer to Ruby Ridge.