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Thread #142479 Message #3284686
Posted By: GUEST,999
04-Jan-12 - 10:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
In the event Rap doesn't get back here, Custer was an American cavalry officer. He and his troops met their doom at the Battle of the Greasy Grass, known to most non-native people as the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Custer's last words to his men: Don't take any prisoners!
It likely wouldn't be 'funny' had the US government not pursued a policy of genocide and broken every treaty it signed with various native peoples.
"The white man made us many promises--more than I can remember, but he never kept but one: he promised to take our land, and he took it."
That observation was made by one of the Oglala Sioux's chiefs, Red Cloud.