Helping with a research of old newspapers, has given me fodder for the Old News series. First thing you may have noticed is that Florida was alive and well and all over the country, plus stuff that no longer exists. Interesting little details of life we don’t usually catch in history books.
And then sometimes, when you are not expecting it, you get slapped with a dose of reality:
The consequences of disarmament were immediate and fatal.
Trust us we’re from the government and we’re here to help you.
Also not noted in the article, was that a large number of the Indians that were killed were women and children.
That is just a fragment of the whole thing. It is a column the length of the newspaper and they are mentioned farther down
OK, I stand corrected. A lot of the contemporary accounts were of the type that our heroic Seventh Cavalry avenged Custer by defeating the murderous savages with little reporting of facts.
Eh, I think previous generations had a harsher view of things than we do.
I saw several different papers, it goes one way and the other, mostly the one you describe.
[…] A month later, some of the greatest injustices against Indians would be perpetrated: The killing of Sitting Bull and his people and the massacre at Wounded Knee. […]