When The United States Army Annialiated 300 Natives: The Battle of Wounded Knee | Documentary
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The Wounded Knee Massacre was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. This is their story.
00:00 - Introduction
02:28 - The Lakota People
08:34 - Reservation, Assimilation & The Ghost Dance
17:13 - Young Man Afraid of Indians
23:59 - Wounded Knee Creek
29:45 - 1973 Occupation of Site
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Narrated by: Will Earl
Written & Researched by: Tony Wilkins
Edited by: Jamit Productions
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Your title is wrong... Annihilated isnt the word... More like murder when more than 80% was women, children and elders at wounded knee..., I know because I live in wounded knee on the south Dakota reservation...
series about lesser known conflicts are always appreciated
Wounded knee wasnt a battle, it was a massacre.
I thought this was a very good video and factually correct with just a couple of minor things not worth mentioning. After the massacre, a 3 day blizzard ensued. When the blizzard was over, the 7th Calvary paid civilians to go bury the dead. While gathering them all up, 5 babies were found still alive wrapped in their mothers shawls. Thankfully, the civilians didn't murder them as I'm sure the 7th Calvary would have done on the orders of Forsyth or just for the fun of it.
What about all those folks Indians murdered, gang raped & kidnapped. Thank God those babies were saved but no one side was blameless here… life was brutal back then.
@@kevinjohnson3521so the cavalry did none of those things right? Smh Better call the cavalry out too. I grew up in the Dakota's and heard stories of what the cavalry did the tribes here. Cant tell me different. Oglala Lakota proud.
@@jesterLxxix hey, two wrongs make a right to you I guess! American Indians were for the most part, serial killers in a society context. Peeing skin off an enemy was common. Gang raping women too before killing them. Killing both sides did… but one was way worse in the way they did it. Funny as you were not alive back then, but if your family was slaughtered, your take would be different. Unfortunately, the slaughter led to the US destroying American Indians. Probably not by choice but because of the revenge the Indians created. Indian giver is a saying for a reason… not racist just truth!
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Wounded Knee was a gun control operation. Thank you for a mostly accurate presentation. I'm dubious that the American Bison was nearly extinct during the mid 1860's for a number of reasons--the Civil War didn't end until the middle of 1865, the transcontinental railroad wasn't complete until 1869 and by 1883 the fifth transcontinental railroad line opened, breech loading rifles had the fire volume necessary for mass buffalo slaughter but were not common until a decade after the mid-1860's and there were an estimated ten million bison roaming the American prairie in 1870. Two decades of intense market hunting whittled that down to an observed 85 bison in 1889. That also lines up closer to the Battle of Wounded Knee or the Wounded Knee Massacre. The Lakota people in 1890 were demonized and had lost most of their power when the twin total control measures of confinement (to reservations) and depopulation were imposed. Going to the reservation was a death sentence--slow death. Fighting was rapid death. It is very difficult to control people and deprive them of their rights--treaties or not--when those people remain armed.
Note that most of the 7th Cavalry casualties were inflicted by US soldiers on themselves. The Lakota had mostly been disarmed by that point. The soldiers of the 7th were mixed in with and probably outnumbered by unarmed Lakota. Gunshots--I'm actually surprised that more soldiers weren't killed. Battle studies indicate that most of the casualties inflicted on the losing side occur when the losing side flees the battlefield. In 20th Century warfare despite the Geneva Convention making laws governing the treatment of surrendering or captured enemy personnel, a significant portion of those surrendering die after surrendering due to mass executions, starvation, overwork, and exposure to the elements. Don't forget diseases! The Lakota were regarded as savages, as animals, demonized--it's significant that the number of dead Lakota wasn't ALL of the Lakota in view of the hate directed at them. Besides, we advanced social primates are keenly attuned to "cheating" and the Lakota had "surrendered" already--the gunfight was treachery! The 7th Cav's inner ape must have been enraged!
In America there are calls from the elites to conduct house-to-house sweeps for guns--just grab them all. Wounded Knee and its aftermath are stark warnings where that nation-wide sweep will lead. The federal forces WILL inflict more causalities on themselves than the demonized 'gun owners' do. Fratricide among police forces is higher than reported. That means there will be a lot of medals awarded--must cover up that fratricide. People--including those who never owned a gun--will be killed by the federal forces collecting guns, and most of those will die after the guns have been collected. Many will be killed trying to get out of the way of the search teams--we killer apes are triggered when prey flees us and we gang up on those who try to escape. Once disarmed and helpless, the propitiating behavior will frequently trigger summary execution because the inner ape of the confiscation teams will need to vent rage for failure of their victims to totally surrender. The Lakota on the reservation faced slow death.
You could look into John Keegan's "The Face of Battle" for more information on how humans behave on the battlefield. Wounded Knee is past--and a probable future.
I enjoyed reading your commentary on this video. Hope it does not get taken down.
You sure seem to be an expert on battles, but have you ever actually been in a battle of any kind? Or are you an armchair warrior. For being such an "expert",you fail to mention that all the Lakota People were unarmed at the time the massacre started. If you actually went to Wounded Knee, you would see a large informational sign there that says "The Wounded Knee Massacre" ,it doesn't say anything about a "Battle". You also fail to mention that many, many, unarmed women and children were murdered by these US troops. And every single one of them received the Medal of Honor for doing so. Incidentally, I was born and raised about 12 miles from Wounded Knee.
@@geraldmclaughlin5709 Do you have a beef with me? I did mention that the Lakota were mostly unarmed. As for my military record, I had a 27-year career spanning 35 years--I had breaks while I was attending college and I spent seven years in the Middle East on anti-terrorist security contracts. I was REMF--avionics tech, electronic warfare, communications. I have more medals than I can remember--my top medal was an ARCOM. Lots of Good Conduct medals, nine hash marks, overseas bars, and more than half of my service time was active duty. During OIF II I pulled my share of guard duty when I wasn't establishing comms stations or standing radio watch--and six months of my year in the sandbox was conducting armed convoy escort. For my fobbit activities I was awarded a combat patch--though because of my assignments I have a choice of several. Can only wear one at a time. There was the possibility of getting blown up when screening vehicles at the gates, but I was lucky--officially, nobody shot at me. Had lots of live alerts--nothing happened unless you count incidents like camels or some kids' soccer ball. My career started at the end of 1974 and I retired at the beginning of 2010. I was assigned to a helicopter carrier, was part of the Berlin Brigade, participated in peacetime exercises during the Cold War overseas, even spent a year officially in the combat zone. I didn't get any rank because I didn't have the careerist mindset and I failed to plan my career path and then execute that plan. Matter of fact, my failure to approach my time in uniform as a career led to me being retired involuntarily--and my chain of command fought to keep me past my "expiration date," successfully. Still had to retire, but what a ride! In order to stay in, I needed to be promoted two ranks, from staff sergeant to master sergeant, and my MOS had no slots to move me to the next rank anyway. I was surplus, old, and had failed to do enough of the right schools! I said that I lost track of my awards--I got one for setting a course record in satellite ground station school, and I was awarded for my work as a "supply analyst" as a National Guard day job.
So, Mr. Delta Force/SEAL/Space Marine, do I qualify as an armchair commando? Speaking of Delta Force, I was voluntold to take their screening physical fitness test but didn't get past the first event--the inverted crab crawl. I haven't ridden in helicopters--but I fixed helicopter radios. Arctic Circle? Been there. Crossed the Equator. Call me "Shellback." Like I said, I had fun.
@@alancranford3398 there's an old saying, " when you have to tell people that you're a big tough guy, then you probably aren't" only a narcissist would go through so much trouble to brag about themselves 🤣
@@geraldmclaughlin5709 Whole lotta fragile egos out there.
Id like to see more videos like this
I hope they start making more movies on Native American treatment in this country. We could learn a lot, and move forward together.
Proud to be Lakota. We'll always be here.
It's been a while since I last visited Fort Kearney, Fort Fetterman, Fettermans massacre, and the Wagon Box fight sites
6:00ISH i THINK YA MEAN EAR-UH-KAH-WAH the California gold rush was 1849 although silver was found in colorado long before as was the trail to Cali.
Yes, the Comstock Load. So many inaccuracies in his videos. Needs to study AMERICAN history better. Does he hate America? The Ghost dance was a prayer to God to kill all the settlers. I wonder if the conquered Gauls as a last gasp prayed for the death of their enemies? I think actual American history is not that different than other concurring Nations.
That's the US government for you. I'm pissed how poorly native people are still being treated after all this time.
What you mean the massive tax breaks and welfare given to them? We may have wronged them then but we treat them better than they deserve now.
Still better than getting sacrificed to some other tribes "God."
25:45 "For fire support, he also positioned four Hotchkiss guns on a hilltop, bordering the clearing."
I thought Gatling machine guns are used in Wounded Knee, not the Hotchkiss guns which are obviously cannons.
There were also Hotchkiss MMGs but I thought they only came out in WW1, didnt know there were earlier versions
@@sowpmactavish Ah, the Hotchkiss 1897 did exist, but I don't believe that it was used in this battle.
Forty-two mm is a very small cannon. I think the model was the M1875 mountain gun.
I think herds of bison not Buffalo. Am i wrong? Were they also hunting buffalo. I thought bison was primary each season.
No, you’re correct it’s just that for American bison. Buffalo is acceptable to. Even though they’re not.
Did you completely forget to cover the battle of greasy grass? Little Bighorn?
At 20:50 you said 1980. Did you mean 1890?
its not a battle it was a massacre get it right
Anyone know painting name at 5:17
no i don't fucking know the name.
I read that book in 1973
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Just goes to show that you can win the medal of (dis)honour for just turning up.
This was a massacre. Not a battle.
There was no battle
It was a massacre
Just another case of history repeating itself but they try to make it sound so personal there were savage natives and there were savage migrants. Conquering is as old as the lands themselves
The virus of this disease mentality came when the descendants of the tribes of Europe arrived on this continent. The very fact that you call us Savage natives is rooted in colonialist racist beliefs to justify their acts of genocide and deceitful barbarism". I'll take you back in your history, when Columbus got here he asked us who we were we said where the human beings we're the people, and he said oh Indians they had forgotten what it meant to be a human being it wasn't part of their reality. So what better way to ease their conscience then to call us savages huh.
This country was founded by cults, America this System country they built is a offspring of a brutal disease Ravaged civilization from Europe that they ran away from but they brought Hatred, Madness and Confusion along with them and they try to project it onto us. This has been the most brutalizing system ever opposed on the planet, the great lie is that Civilization is good for us.
Reflecting from your own insecurities without taking responsibility.
They said they were trying to save us how do you save someone who taught you how to live, and how can you own the land, we are the land. We stewarded and lived with the land but we didn't own it, we understood that the land was given to us by and that it isn't the earth that belongs to us but it is us who belong to the Earth. So we look after it. Sure you could say there was some fights sometimes over hunting grounds but we also had conflict resolution and negotiation.
Your whole value system is Tainted, even your religions is about greed, in their false doctrines for manipulation claiming that non-Christians could not own land and felt free to take whatever lands were 'discovered' pursuant to the will of God as expressed in Genesis 1:28.
Maybe you shall look further into your history and remember who you are because you forgotten.
@@Tasunka_NightwolfI encourage you to read about the Comanche tribe. For every peace loving tribe there was a savage tribe of murderers, slavers, and committers of unspeakable acts.
Hypocrites... They have a 2nd amandment but then do this
Battle??
How desperately sad. We have to discuss and learn from these stories of prejudice, greed, intolerance, paranoia and violence….otherwise we are doomed to repeat them, time and time again. 😢
@@amishdeniro Did you actually read my comment? I agree with you. I find it sad that it happened, not sad that it is discussed.
I wonder how Great Britton was concurred. With garden parties tea and biscuits?
But go Ukraine ha. Yeah dam Russians🙄
So the US government was threatened by a dance that was made to celebrate/ worship the idea of a god THAT THE US GOVERNMENT PUSHED ON THEM. We’re awful
No, YOU are ignorant.
Lmao
The natives tribes where I grew up had their dance parties stopped by the British . Natives bands often had slaves The natives would end their dance parties with the killing of the slaves.
Shoot first ask questions later, the native hunters would agree.
@@redwater4778 Bu!!$h!+!
That like saying terrorists vs 9/11 citizens. Battle? What a joke
Yep the great buffalo soldiers were at this massacres and every other one to sandy Creek, they were in over 171 so called battles with them for 20 years
Lol good joke there. They wouldn't have last long against the Lakotas. Just saying.
@@jesterLxxix lol you need a fast history lesson about the buffalo soldiers, Buffalo Soldiers fought Native Americans for over 25 years, while also mapping uncharted lands and helping to open the West for settlement. Even Wikipedia tells the story some what of the indian wars and the buffalo soldiers presence at a majority of massacres winning medals of honor for clearing the west for expansion. They carried that name These soldiers did participate in significant battles. They fought in major wars against Indians, including conflicts against the Cheyenne in Kansas after the Civil War, the decade-long and brutal Apache war of the late 1870s and early 1880s, and the last major campaign, Massacre at Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge in South Dakota during 1890-1891. War documents don't lie, no matter how you want to twist it or haven't been taught yet but know you know. And can Google and search for yourself, it's pretty simple.
Yay!
repent
Spellcheck your title.
Thank you for sharing TRUTH of the Native Indian Peoples.👍🇺🇸
Wounded knee was not a battle. It was a slaughter committed by the U.S. Army on a ragged band of Lakota that had no way to defend themselves.
The Lakota shot first, according to the firsthand witness Testimony of Father Francis Craft, who was referred to by Black Elk as the only good washichu (white man).
EDIT: I should clarify that Father Craft’s testimony was that one Lakota man shot first and then the bullets flew, not that it was a coordinated thing.
@folofus4815 Official reports say that the firer of the first shot as unknown, whether Lakota or U.S. Army.
Even if the Lakotah shot first you can't really blame them. You can only push someone so far before they snap unless they're cowards. Maybe they decided it was better to die on their feet than live in chains.
Either way it was still a massacre of mostly unarmed, tired, starving non combatants.
Your title is wrong... Annihilated isnt the word... More like murder when more than 80% was women, children and elders, revenge for custer...
Our ancestors weren't anialated they were murdered
Thought it was a native American movie
It’s a documentary.
Or INDIAN as the Sioux in Minnesota would say it where I grew up. Wait--that was in the 40's before the WOKIES emerged to lawyer up the language.
Wounded knee, this was not a war it was a massacre, war crime and genocide against innocent civilians, my ancestors, I am Oglalla Lakota, my great grandfather was Red Cloud, I am Khola Takani Hehi..
Agreed.
The brave hunkpati war leader later become the great spiritual advisor of 1890. would show his fighting skills in the very famous battlefield of white stone hill of September 3 1863, the battle of a near massacre site against General sully's us military calvery soldiers. Many soldiers an very brave fighting sioux indian warriors would be killed in this great battlefield scene also his own people would suffer many deadly very sad tragic events in the old west to the very sad tragic massacre victory site of the great depression of 1931. My great grandfather bullghost, only one who rejected the Christian religious ways. The small Christian community at stephan SD very truly wanted to destroying the sioux Indian traditional religious ways! The Sundance an the swit lodge practices in 1885. The small Christian community at the town of stephan on the crow creek sioux Indian reservation of SD. The small Christian community town was so frighten of bullghost threats of terrible violence! They ask the local ranchers for protection against Bullghost's very bad temperature attitude! After his terrible affair he would move to standing rock SD bullghost dearly miss the old western style lifestyle of the many years before the sioux Indian warrior people were put on a poor wretched reservation lifestyle. Bullghost inspired many Lakota sioux people to the ghost dance celebration or uprising of december 1890. His scene in the ghost dance practices holding a secret pipe an little girl dreaming in trans like state. His putting hand on his own traditional tribal members for great spiritual advisor of up lifting from the great spirit. The scaryied towns people alert the us military! Which led to sittingbull's very unfortunate death at the fierce grand river gun fight Dec 15th. Many deaths on both sides. Bullghost was one of the nearly serverly wounded warriors in the great deadly battlefield scene! Two weeks later the seventh calvery Custers old regiment will unfortunately will brutal kill the thirty eight hunkpapa Lakota sioux warriors including Bigfoot's minneaconjou Lakota sioux band of three hundred poor innocent lives! Ending the last us military Lakota sioux indian wars an all us military Indian wars. Bullghost return to crow creek to heal his war wounds! His burial ground is north of the reservation at the big bend committee. During the 1970's someone led some American civilian looters to Bullghost burial ground to steal his traditional religious items and his tombstone from the his grave site. His spiritual items are lost forever! Bullghost has many relatives from standing rock to crow creek SD. During the great depression of apiril 17th 1931. Very sadly many of Bullghost's own people at the brutal Cheney rush massacre site. Known as Buffalo County war or the Great war for the northern part of the reservation! This differently not a us military calvery sioux Indian war! But a very secretive bloody massacre conflict battlefield scene by its own sad forgotten tragic story! This very sad deadly event would happen during of the sooner policy act the reservation land take over of the better half of the 20th century! Who continued the harassment by the local towns people and the ranchers in the northern part of the reservation! The American civilians intruders own words they wanted the sioux Indians leave emittedly off their own reservation homelands! The very sad story begins when a large party of over fifty well armed white civilians intruders arrived there with guns and rifles very unannounced very much looking for terrible trouble some violence! In a long narrow valley just below the hilly prairie land country. were the still defiantly hunkpati Dakota sioux indian Cheney rush encampment later massacre site! last forgotten tragedy of the 20th century. The very next of the apiril of 18th. After hear the very sad tragic story from the young children who actually saw an witness the tragedy unfolded there! The brutal Cheney rush massacre site of 1931, the second sand creek massacre of 1864! The only very sad tragic massacre in the us history someone tried to cover up the evidence that it never happened there! The American civilians intruders would go far as keeping it a hush - hush quiet secret as possible! So the out side world wouldn't find out their way sinful evil murderous plan! By completely destroyed the Buffalo hide tipis an the wooden log cabins were the Cheney rush encampment once very proudly stood. The very next on the 18th a large number of massive warriors over three hundred angered hunkpati Dakota sioux indian warriors! Iron Nation's, kul wicasa oyate Lakota sioux Indian warriors may have assisted in the fierce fighting to! The American civilians were setting up a camp site an a well cooked meal along the shores of the beautiful Missouri River. Someone ran to told they would be facing a huge massive large numbers of warriors coming towards them from a great distance away! They quickly made the main battlefield scene on the prairie land country. A running swiftly very fierce fighting battlefield scene began! Bullets flying from both sides many brave fighters deaths also on both sides! Dust would rise up from the horses hooves made a great impressive fighting moment scene! Still fierce fighting out numbered the rest of the defeated wounded weakened American intruders escaped or fled back across the reservation border lands to thier own ranches and towns! Never wanting to take back the hunkpati Dakota sioux people's traditional reservation Buffalo hunting grounds and our rich fertile farm lands along the beautiful Missouri River. The last forgotten Dakota sioux Indian tragedy of the 20th century and the last sioux Indian victory warriors song of retribution for the lost poor innocent lives at the brutal Cheney rush massacre site of April 17th of 1931. The massacre victory is still there today half a mile northwest from the town stephan SD along the highway to the capital of Pierre SD. North to the two small rolling hills. The one hill on the left side as a great resistance for our native American indigenous people of North America. Many of my own tribal traditional people actually wore a buck skin feathered clothing also a true cowboy 🤠 native American indigenous tribal very beautiful look. This deadly weapons were use during the fierce fighting battlefield scene! The bow an arrows with very strong war Lances, the old western style rifles an pistols to the Springfield long range rifles. From the veterans of the first world war one. Also the very impressive ever rising very fighting of the young brave men would warriors on the battlefield moment scene! To great fighting men of world War two! The most secretive sioux Indian bloody conflict east of the beautiful Missouri River during the early 20th century. The famous nez perce war leader of 1877, Chief Joseph's own words its easy to raise the rifle but its very hard to put it down! My historical information for today. Have a great fabulous wonderful day.😀
I tried to waych this again,I stopped at 16:00 So much historical facts are wrong,It's like someone re wrote the whole story,I'm Oglala Lakota,I grew up 12 miles from Wounded Knee.Please disregard this false video,itdeserves no consideration whatsoever.
Battle it was murder well equipped infantry cannon gattlling machine gun it was murder stop calling it a battle
battle.
A battle is a two or more way fight. This is by definition a battle.
Oh, I see, thousands of massacres by Indians to US citizens = who cares?
One massacre caused by Indians trying to kill US soldiers = tragedy?
Give me a break🙄
Actually, the US citizens are the ones who perpetrated thousands of massacres against the Indians, definitely NOT the other way around, if one studies the actual history. But whenever the Indians fought back and gave the "settlers" a taste of their own medicine, they were labeled as "savages", which was pretty much the height of hypocrisy.
Well said.
Pretty sure the US citizens committed thousands of massacres against the so called " Indians", not the other way around.
No introduction this time? Too much political correctness I guess
All i want to hear is WW2
Then just listen to the WWII videos…
This is what Israel is doing today..
Remember the Lakota were known for slaughtering and displacing many tribes by this time and thought that they owned land which they have taken from others. They had 0 claim to that land besides the right of conquest while the US legally bought it. Human history is and always has been one group of people fighting others and taking what they have. The US government went through the right processes to get ownership of the black hills and were simply a better fighting group with better weapons than the Lakota. Don’t feel sorry for any group of people for we are all inherently evil creatures.
Remember the sixth Commandment "Thou shalt not kill". Remember the Lakota and many other tribes were sick and tired of inter-tribal warfare by the time the Europeans showed up, to the point where they had long stopped the continuing acts of murderous revenge of warfare and devolved it to a dance competition, which is today known as a "pow-wow". Remember the Europeans had sent their worst to the North American continent, in exile, who then rebelled and defeated their monarchic bureaucracy's military, adopted the governmental structure of the Haudenosaunee (aka Iroquois), then declared themselves the owners of the land, betraying all former agreements with any and all tribes of Natives, declared themselves owners of the land through "discovery", began a policy of genocide and displacement that continues to this day (you're the proof of that) and racially profiled, enslaved, murdered and generally betrayed all Ten Commandments as they lied, murdered and poisoned their way West. They had 0 claim to ANY LAND, and simply killed for it, claiming themselves "civilized" despite being drunken, illiterate Bible-thumpers. Don't feel intimidated by their vanity and genocidal tendencies, just watch your backs when you face more than 3 of them.
@@Jason-hg1pc you’re referencing commandments and calling me proof of as a racist bible thumper? You don’t even know who I am or who my people are. I’m Irish descendant and we were the most hated white peoples in the world by my own race and others…we were classed as drunken and on the same level as black people and were forced into slavery poverty and hunger. My people survived and built this land to be what it is now with no recognition or asking for any acknowledgment. So before you go spouting your bullshit. How about you take a second to chill tf out and recognize I’m human too scumbag.
The virus of this disease mentality came when the descendants of the tribes of Europe arrived on this continent. The very fact that you call us Savage natives is rooted in colonialist racist beliefs to justify their acts of genocide and deceitful barbarism". I'll take you back in your history, when Columbus got here he asked us who we were we said where the human beings we're the people, and he said oh Indians they had forgotten what it meant to be a human being it wasn't part of their reality. So what better way to ease their conscience then to call us savages huh.
This country was founded by cults, America this System country they built is a offspring of a brutal disease Ravaged civilization from Europe that they ran away from but they brought Hatred, Madness and Confusion along with them and they try to project it onto us. This has been the most brutalizing system ever opposed on the planet, the great lie is that Civilization is good for us.
Reflecting from your own insecurities without taking responsibility.
Your assumption that we are all inherently evil creatures, is a coping mechanism that derives from trauma that has been imprinted into your consciousness, hatred is nurtured, Hatred is a learned behavior and didn't exist in our way of life.
we are inherently a part of the Earth but most have forgotten that, but it is a part of our genetic memory it is a part of our memories of evolution.
if you are living in a way that is counterintuitive to our genetic memory and against the reality of our existence then it has alter your DNA. Altering our genome, changing our DNA. Your people were forced to love what they feared that was there to possess them, when you messed up love in a lot of ways and you still haven't figured it out yet.
Not to mention, the courts I'm acknowledged that the US government has illegally broken the treaties, an offered 100 million it's being held in a trust fund and now it's worth 2 Billion. In Lakota still have not accepted it.
SOME but not all tribes were very brutal and vicious. There were many peaceful tribes mistreated by the United States but there were also many tribes which committed terrible acts. Its not all black and white.