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tulipsandroses

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13. Much of what many people know about Native Americans, comes from old western movies

Sat May 1, 2021, 10:22 AM

May 2021

The " redman" coming to get the white man.

This is all part of the systemic racism that people are pushing back against. Rick Santorum earlier this week said " we birthed a nation from nothing". The caucasity of that statement is stunning. Giving voice that America is the birthright of white people. No mention of the violence against the native people. I guess this was just an inconvenient necessity just as slavery was a necessity.

A while ago, I read that Martin Scorsese and Robert Deniro were working on a movie about the Osage murders

As best-selling author David Grann details in his new book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI,” the Osage reservation was soaked in blood because it was awash in oil. Driven from their lands in Kansas, the Osage had bought a swath of northeast Oklahoma in the early 1870s. The rocky, barren reservation promised to yield little—with the exception of their desire to be left alone—until the discovery of one of the largest oil deposits in the United States below the surface.

https://www.history.com/news/the-fbis-first-big-case-the-osage-murders

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"Wounded Knee Massacre" ..Proof we fail to teach about .. genocide of Native Americans. [View all] Stuart G May 2021 OP

We know because of the Siege of Wounded Knee and Sacheen Littlefeather. quaint May 2021 #1

Did you never read the best seller, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown? hlthe2b May 2021 #2

At the link below, I reference this book..post 12.. Stuart G May 2021 #3

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We read this in Junior High School LongtimeAZDem May 2021 #5

In the late-70's a guy in our class had that book, FoxNewsSucks May 2021 #4

Tulsa's Wall Street-May 31, 1921-300 people died, 800 injured..I think I heard of it once, long ago. Stuart G May 2021 #6

So many massacres, so many names, not all known, a few mentioned in passing sanatanadharma May 2021 #7

We got Wounded Knee and the attack on the bonus camp from my high school brewens May 2021 #9

Read, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" Bayard May 2021 #10

It upsets me greatly that the Buffalo Soldiers were involved in the Native American genocide. Sneederbunk May 2021 #11

It is not American History, but Massacre History..Armenian Genocide Stuart G May 2021 #12

Much of what many people know about Native Americans, comes from old western movies tulipsandroses May 2021 #13

Well...today I learned about ..".The Osage Murders." Thank You for teaching me of that.. Stuart G May 2021 #14

The Sand Creek Massacre. Nov. 29, 1864. Between 70 to 500 Cheyenne and Arapahoe,, niyad May 2021 #15

Genocide: an integral part of Tribalism. n/t MarcA May 2021 #16

Wounded Knee is just one example. Grumpy Old Guy May 2021 #17