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.
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Amos Two Bulls, Lakota. Photo By Gertrude Käsebier 1852 – 1934
The Sioux have always had a bad name in the area I live in (NW Illinois/SW Wisconsin). Goes way back but the frosting on the cake came when the Sioux went to work for the US government during the Blackhawk War and in 1832 near the Bad Ax River in SW Wisconsin, slaughtered the Sauk/Fox women and children in the middle of the Mississippi River as they were trying to surrender. The Sauk/Fox, Meskwaki and even some of the Chippewa never did care for the Sioux, but this sort of put it in a different light.
Great photo. Better still is the photographer's name, Käsebier.
ReplyDeleteSounds like case o' beer.
Translates to cheese beer.
Calm until you mess with him or his kin.
ReplyDeletewould have been prime warrior age at the LBH battle.
ReplyDeleteThe Sioux have always had a bad name in the area I live in (NW Illinois/SW Wisconsin).
ReplyDeleteGoes way back but the frosting on the cake came when the Sioux went to work for the US government during the Blackhawk War and in 1832 near the Bad Ax River in SW Wisconsin, slaughtered the Sauk/Fox women and children in the middle of the Mississippi River as they were trying to surrender.
The Sauk/Fox, Meskwaki and even some of the Chippewa never did care for the Sioux, but this sort of put it in a different light.