Floyd Red Crow Westerman - "Custer Died For Your Sins" 

Hah! I attended Bagley High School at the same time, and he played in our gymnasium, as well. My mother lived around Rice Lake as a kid and I think she used to get in fights with the LaDukes in junior high. Nothing political or racial, it was just that kind of neighborhood.

Winona LaDuke 👍

I graduated there in 96

Chuck Goecke!! I had your Mom for a teacher, and I graduated with Dickie! You might remember my parents; Chuck and "Mrs. Agnew"? My Mom taught 3rd and 2nd grades at Mahnomen Elementary and my Dad was a photographer in Mahnomen!! Hope all the Goecke's are doing well!!

@@maryagnew-belz8744 Thanks for that. Sadly Gramma Ruth died from covid at the peak right before the shots come out. She was 94 so she had a good run at life. The rest of us are all doing great. Rick(Richard, Dickie) is now retired in the Twin cities. We're all retired now. We all got together a few weeks ago up at brother Jon's lake in Bemidji, including my Daughter Sara with her New Baby Max(4 months) and her Husband and who now Live in Melbourne, AU. Our Son Chris and his wife Brandi and their kids Sadie(4) and Justin(7) Came with me and my wifey Sandra from Texas, where we live in DFW. We all had fun.

I got to meet both of those great men at a Pow Wow one day in CA.......a day I will never forget....

I have read it. And I love it.

I'm not American nor indigenous but I really want to read the book 'Custer Died For Your Sins An Indian manifesto". I haven't read one like it since "Bury my heart At Wounded Knee'. My mum couldn't read the end it upset he so much & I read the end in tears. We saw Dances With Wolves together when it was in the theatres. I'm a white Australian however I've always identified more with any indigenous culture than the stale stench of the rotting western myths burning in front of my eyes most of my life.

❤thanks I will read it .I never would’ve knew if it wasn’t for your comment .Thanks once again

Honered to have know Uncle Floyd....he told me he met Vine and Dennis Banks in the boarding school...Great Leaders both

Joey Hopkins The good thing is that America is on the same path as all empires before it.... It will implode on itself. The signs have been there for a long time, nothing is forever. :) Same fate awaits european union as well. All of them. And that's a comforting thought. People are waking up.

Joey Hopkins no one can trust the American Government. It wants to kill everyone and everything it is an insane machine driven by greedy people and their parasitic minion. But it is terrifying that First Nations people have always been first on its list, and years and years of whitewashing and lies keeps the unconscious sense of entitlement firmly in place and prevents whites from waking up to the peril, adds to the danger that First Nations must face. Now with Trump ascending the throne the whites are waking up.who knows if it will be in time

@@steffenam China and Russia maybe don't care about their natives but they let them be what they have ever been. Look for the tribes in Mongolia or the sub polar circular tribes in Russia. They are all free to do what they want to do and even their kids can grow up like hundreds of years ago if they like or visit a free school and university if they choose to do so. Minors in Europe were not allowed to keep their tradition as more as a hobby and the US government locks away natives in reservations where no life like in ancient times would be possible (and it would not be allowed either!) and so they just have the permission to rule casinos and a life in alcoholism. What a shame... USA and EU are constructions od laws, politics, borders and business. Nothing else. Nationalities in a "tribal" sense is something different. We were put into boxes, covered with laws and dues. And this is what it is called USA or EU. So if this will implode one day, this would be best. The sooner, the better. Mankind is waking up rapidly and this is not stoppable anymore. After this there will be still America and Europe which needs new structures for newer, wiser minds which have a more sensitive point of view on this world and its habitants, no matter ig it is human. animal, plant, mineral or whatever. Therefore constructions like USA or EU would not fit anymore. They would have to change everything they are. So better make something new. Something that is really based on respect and love for this planet, life, peace and freedom. Maybe I sound like a hippie. Not too bad...😉😄🙏🏻 But wouldn't you agree that these are the main things we all want, if native American, European, Arab, Chinese, native Brazilian from the Amazonas jungle or wherever someone lives? This is what we all havr im common. This is not automatically the opposite of making a good business. Chinese will always try to dominate us all. But what about fair trade? Consumers who woke up would buy where workers are treaten right. And if it would not be nessessary to buy new mobile phones every 24 months etc we all could cope with higher prices and fair play. This is our direction and I am glad that we will be in time. It is too late for many great people died in senseless wars (the US make more years of war all over the world than they exist in years!) but it is not too late for mankind and even not for our cultures. It is not passed away yet.

*A'ho!*

Respect for Each other & our Earth Mother and her Gifts is the only way anyone will make it 💗💗💗Love from LiZaRd💗💗💗 The poison water, the poison food, poison land, poison air , the poison pills , the psych-war/info-war /mind/heart poison and brain programming began before a lot of us were born. It's hard to come out of a coma but where there's a Will there's a way💖💖💖 You are a part of my Family, I am a part of yours💗💗💗 Together in Peace we can make Beautiful Things and Heal These Wounds

+Amanda Conway You have through his spiritual journey 2nd part of his life circle.

OMG

And on the day we honor indigenous people

Yes there is a book with the same name by Vine Deloria Jr.

Don't feel guilty---work to change the wrongs.

I bet neither man were the first to remark that Custer Died For Your Sins. The irony is inescapable.

You speak like custer was a family member

@@avepasho4709 he just speaks the truth

The expedition to the Little Big Horn was conceived by the head of the Army, General Sherman, with General Sheridan. Wealthy and powerful men in the East were pressuring President Grant to solve "the Indian problem" because they wanted to make money off the settling of the West without ever setting foot there. The US government ordered the tribes to report to reservations by January 31st or be declared hostiles, knowing full well that travel was impossible on the Plains during the winter; it was purely an excuse to declare them "hostiles" and attack them. Custer wasn't the commander of the expedition, General Alfred Terry was; Custer's rank was only Lt Colonel. Neither Custer nor any of the other soldiers involved had any part in deciding to send forces after the Natives. Soldiers do not set government policy, sign treaties, break treaties, or give themselves orders. They do their duty, and many of them die doing it. Whether the battlefield is on the Western Plains, in France, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan, that remains the same. Custer has become the poster child for every awful thing ever done to Native peoples by Europeans since first contact, simply because most Americans can't name any other soldier in the Indian Wars. George Washington killed Natives, so did Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, also Generals John Gibbon, Nelson Miles, and George Crook, among many others. Yet they are heroes, and Custer is reviled.

Don't disrespect my grandfather

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Anthony Braveheart Lakota Sioux

Actually, might have been Cheyenne. There were more Cheyenne than there were Lakota

@@aaronrider4051 Wrong!!!!!! Most of the major bands of the Lakota were there.Not to disparage the Cheyenne people,but they were a much smaller tribe than us. A lot of them had already been forcibly displaced to Oklahoma,hence the name Northern and Southern Cheyenne. However they did do their part to destroy the murderers of women and children. There was also a contingent of the Arapahoe people there and they helped as well.I am Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge SD.

@@geraldmclaughlin5709 Howdy sir. I was just going by what this gentleman said somewhere in his interview: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u-3NIrXW92s.html He could be wrong, and more importantly, I could be wrong. Have a good day.