Katie was the daughter of Louis Roubideaux and his third wife, Adelia Blunt Arrow. Louis Roubideaux was a French/Lakota interpreter for the Rosebud Sioux Reservation.
[Brule Delegation consisting of: (standing L to R) Agent Pollock or Major Andrus; Louis Roubedeaux (interpreter); (seated L to R) Black Crow; Iron Wing; Spotted Tail; Coarse Voice?; White Thunder.] Studio portrait of a group of adult males in native and Western dress arranged into one seated and one standing row. Many of the men hold pipes.United States -- Washington DC Date of Photograph ca. 1880 courtesy of http://imagesvr.library.upenn.edu/p/pennmuseum/index.html
They were sell-outs.
ReplyDeleteThough, by the end of the War of Northern Aggression, the destruction of buffalo herds and the flood of European diseases that had been sweeping through the land had diminished indigenous people to the point where their ability to effectively resist the push of settlers, the railroad and accompanying army had become very difficult. The army transitioned from traditional pre-war artillery to mobile (pack carried) mountain howitzers and caisson pulled rifled artillery and heavy howitzers with exploding shells making static Indian defenses in "impregnable" mountain strongholds impossible to hold.
The US Army's defeat at the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek/Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1976 was pyrrhic for the Souix and their allies. By 1880, there were a lot of Plains Indians who took the offer of food allotments and reservations rather than be driven and killed. In my mind it was better to live free than die, but I have the benefit of historical rearward vision. Sitting Bull made peace as did Geronimo and Cochise. Leaving Wild Bill Cody's Wild West Show to tell the tale.
What is the better revenge? To die in a hail of bullets or a storm of shrapnel, or to live to love and to fight, and to tell your story to future generations?
ReplyDeleteI think that I would have taken as many out as possible, Crazy Horse style.
DeleteAssimilating into a FREE and thriving society is not selling out in my opinion....
ReplyDeletePlus that free society allows the option of preserving your culture and your people's identity if you really want to. Can't do that if everyone is dead. Surviving and thriving, like the Cherokee, is the best vengeance.
Deletethese are great pix and great history to pass down to future generations. I am trying now to prove my past history. it was told to me by my Grandmother and my Greatgrandmother who are now both passed and that is where the Native American line comes from. It is a great history and all Americans should know and hear how the Native Americans were treated and how we fought to protect our rights then just as America is fighting now to try to protect rights that are being taken away.
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