Washita Battlefield National Historic Site near Cheyenne 

He was quite normal for his time. Mankind is still barbaric and still worships one thing even above his creator, MONEY.

The indians were also butchers. Read "empire of the summer moon" about the Commanches and Commancheria (an area the size of Texas that they ruled until the 1870's). The noble savage is pure BS. The indians raided and butchered other indian encampments just a Custer did here and they did the same to white settlements. The showed no quarter and expected none. The delighted and excelled in torture of captives. One method was to bury the captive up to the neck pointed toward the sun and cut away the eyelids. The last chief of the Commanche was half white. Cynthia Parker was the mother of Quanah Parker the last chief. She was taken when they attacked and butchered the settlement in Texas she was part of. The white settlers could not do battle with them until the Texas Rangers received the Colt 6 shooter. An eyewitness in the book says a Commanche warrior could use a leather strap attached to his leg to roll over the side of the horse and shoot 10 arrows under the neck of the horse before the first one hit the ground. They actually drove the Apaches out of Arizona. So much for who owns the land. Land belongs to whomever can take and hold it. Always has always will. IE China now owns Tibet. Russia is looking to retake the Ukraine and China is looking to retake Taiwan. in the late 1870's a union general (McKenzie) defeated the Commanches and forced them onto reservations. Descriptions of the Commanche warriors seem very similiar to the Mongol warriors of the past.

Let us all be clear and truthful here- white revisionists are still calling Washita a battle- it was a cowardly slaughter by Custer and set the tone for their attack on fleeing non-combatants at Little Big Horn, where "those are not just women and children waiting down there."

@@rickb1387 Nope- what you call normal in reality is psychotic, under engagement of war. You call the deaths "collateral damage."

The “war parties” attacking civilians came home to roost. can say they would behave differently (on either side).

WE TOO LOVE METAL DETECTIBG - HOW WOULD YOU HAVE LIKED TO HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE CHOSEN TO SEARCH THE LITTLE BIG HORN BATTLE-FIELD???!!!! THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GRAND!!!!!!!

Maybe you could get lucky and find a baby's skull with a bullet in it.

@@bobporch You never know but I suspect that this battlefield, like most others, has been searched and picked over for years and I'd guess that all of the previously easily available baby skulls with bullets in them have made their way into someone's collection of baby skulls with bullets in them. I haven't heard of a recent find in years.

@@58landman Yeah, probably sad but true. But don't forget the old people, the women and older children. There were also a few warriors that were not off hunting that tried to fight back. The wounded ones were also dispatched. Dispatched! Now that is a nice sanitary phrase to describe SS style executions. A warriors skull with a bullet in it would also be a nice find.

@@bobporch It works both ways. The Comanches, Kiowa, S. Cheyennes and Arapahoes readily tortured and murdered innocent whites wherever they found them and the Army's punitive actions were designed to let these tribes warriors know that they were not beyond the reach of the Army. Custer's campaign was just that and it's odd to me that anyone would compare the fighting during a one event punitive Indian campaign in the mid-1800s to a Regime sized program of genocide, nearly 100 years later, when that was clearly not the case.