A look at the Sioux and Nez Perce tribes

[Diane Merkel]

I would be interested in comments about this article. An excerpt:

Some say Custer’s death might have dropped into oblivion instead of many of the history books we read today, had it not been for national repercussions. Such speculation still exists on the topic of Custer’s Last Stand, a nation infuriated and the Army freed to wage all-out war.

Let’s look at the circumstances surrounding the immediate outcome at the time for the Sioux and Nez Perce.

The full article: www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=8076

[Dark Cloud]

Where do you find these articles? Why do you make us read them? Someone stop her.......

"....the heroic young Crazy Horse and his band of Cheyennes." Editors? Hello?

Joseph is back as a Chief and The Red Napoleon...... hadn't he been demoted of late like Gall?

"Some say..." Who? Name someone that isn't a convenient character in imagination. In any case, it was the (mostly) fictional image and Victorian taste - not the incident - that had import that lives on.

It reads like a cut and paste from junior high essays.

It's election night. Best mood I've been in all day.