Col. Nelson Miles was right. The Lakota were not babes in the woods!

Col. Nelson Miles: "Chief Sitting Bull, the proposition that you were a peaceable people before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all. You were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped foot on this continent. You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands, just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a cause."

Col Miles told it the way it was and Sitting Bull didnt like it. It took a bite out of all the medicine man tales the Lakota talked themselves into as it did in other tribes war councils. Attack other tribes? Just following orders of the Shaman whom the great father advised to attack and take their horses and young woman. Just following the Great Fathers orders.

This is a fact that the Lakota, the Shawnee, the Apache, Cherokee, Iroquis and other tribes were no better then the White man. There were idyllic tribes that hunted and fished and just did not want nothing but to be left alone. These were the prey of the more warrlike tribes who raided their villages for booty. But their luck had run out. So mistakes were made. Treaties? the treaty of Versailles led to WW2. Treaties are mere pieces of paper with smiley faces watermarked on them. Even today you can sign a contract and break it for the most insipid reasons.

The Indians concept that they were victims was merely sour grapes that the Great Father apparently favored these palefaces. And that the Indian own concept of Manifest Destiny, they they also had in their various forms, was kaput. People make them out to be friends of nature. Its a fact that Indians did not always use the whole Buffalo. Sometimes they just needed some fur for the coming winter, so they like the White man also left Bison carcasses to rot. Stop the myths that their commune with nature was nothing more superstition because they could not explain their environment when they crossed the Bering Straits and found these newfangled creatures running around.

But lets stop the blame game. Blacks sold Blacks to Whites because they were spoils of war and White people did not venture into the African Heartland. The slaves were brought to them where they had docked their slave ships by the tribe that had conquered the soon to be slaves. Whites would go in, but only the Black natives could show them were they could find possible villages that could be enslaved. No White person in his right mind, even with a machine gun would go into the unknown brush of the African Continent.

It the White man should have gone back where he came from then the Indians need to grab the first boat across the Bering Straits where they migrated from as the Asiatic looks attest to.