[HN Gopher] The Lakota: A Human Story ___________________________________________________________________ The Lakota: A Human Story Author : apophasis Score : 19 points Date : 2021-01-20 21:57 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (kirkcenter.org) (TXT) w3m dump (kirkcenter.org) | protomyth wrote: | _We know that in 1835, Lakota chief Lame Deer shot a Crow warrior | twice with the same arrow. We have little idea why._ | | Well, they really, really didn't like each other at a tribal | level. Heck, when you start naming places for the people you | killed there, its a bit in the hatred side. | boomboomsubban wrote: | So then why did he shoot a warrior twice with the same arrow? | Hating each other doesn't make that any clearer. | hpoe wrote: | I hate someone so much I shoot him with an arrow now, he's | having trouble moving so I realizing I'm out of arrows walk | up yank out the arrow (smiling as he screams while trying to | crawl away) and shoot him again at point blank range for the | lulz. | icefrakker wrote: | "It's a staggering success while it lasts; by the late 1860s, the | average family owns upwards of twenty horses. The empire these | nomads build is rapacious; more than once, the Lakota are forced | to move westward because they have looted the neighboring tribes | out of existence and are therefore out of farmed food. Over | several more generations, the Lakota shift fitfully west, until a | series of visions reveals the Black Hills as their final home." | | Funny but I have never seen genocide committed by white folk | called a staggering success. If a white person said God gave | white people Utah until the end of time we would think they are | nuts, why is it any different when a native says the same? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-01-20 23:00 UTC)