And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
George Armstrong Custer might have something to say about Cheyennes on horseback if he'd survived. I suspect that the same can be said for many pilgrims who met them back before the army had pacified them, the buffalo hunters slaughtered their livelihoods, and the white man's European diseases killed 75% of them.
George Armstrong Custer might have something to say about Cheyennes on horseback if he'd survived. I suspect that the same can be said for many pilgrims who met them back before the army had pacified them, the buffalo hunters slaughtered their livelihoods, and the white man's European diseases killed 75% of them.
ReplyDeleteI think it was smallpox that got 100% of the Mandans. A noble people and a heavy loss for the civilized world.
DeleteSuch a wonderful photograph - riding free....
ReplyDeleteYep, they are all smiling.
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