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.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Group of Four Cheyenne Men in Native Dress Near Wagon, 1868
It looks as though they're reservation types who gave up scalping and hunting to dig in the dirt, and accept the USGOV allotment. Hell of a way to end up...on welfare. And of course, many of their ancestors still are.
It seems odd to me that most of the indian pics I see are of old guys. Old for the time, 40s, 50s. Were all the young bucks out scalping and looting, too busy for a picture?
no, they were killed by the US Government. by 1895, killed off two entire generations of young men and women of the tribes. old men and a few babies were all that were left...
It looks as though they're reservation types who gave up scalping and hunting to dig in the dirt, and accept the USGOV allotment. Hell of a way to end up...on welfare. And of course, many of their ancestors still are.
ReplyDeleteWhich one is madam warrens grand papi?
ReplyDeleteIt seems odd to me that most of the indian pics I see are of old guys. Old for the time, 40s, 50s. Were all the young bucks out scalping and looting, too busy for a picture?
ReplyDeleteno, they were killed by the US Government. by 1895, killed off two entire generations of young men and women of the tribes. old men and a few babies were all that were left...
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