I’ll have a Big Mac, fries, and a medium Dr. Pepper.
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Custer rides again, although he's atop a plastic motorcycle and in a McDonald's Happy Meal box.
Crossposted at Native American Netroots &
Docudharma
Update:
I wrote this late last night, thanks to Hal C for catching the fact that "It became apparent that McDonald’s withdrew the offensive Custer figurines quietly and without comment" in an article dated today. They did that relatively fast, but I'm still never eating there again. That's my "quietly and without comment" response.
http://nativetimes.com/...
Wolters compared the insult to putting a figurine of Adolph Hitler in a McDonald’s Happy Meal served in Tel Aviv, Israel. "Most white people would never understand our perspective on this horrible faux paux, but to every Indian in America, the insult is obvious," he said.
He added, "Most advertising agencies are in the east and the people who put the ads and flyers together have absolutely no idea about the demographics out here in Indian country. We Lakota never see an Indian in the flyers of Kohl’s, J. C. Penney’s or Wal-Mart. They never stop to consider that our Lakota children never see people like themselves in the flyers and ads they send out here and yet you can go to Chicago or San Francisco and see ads with African Americans and Asian Americans.
Yesterday several customers, white and Indian, visited different McDonald’s shops in Rapid City and ordered Happy Meals. They soon discovered their packets did not contain a Custer figurine and motorcycle. They went to the counter and specifically asked for a Custer memento and were told there were none to be had. Customers buying Happy Meals without the Custer figurine were offered refunds on the meal if they so requested. It became apparent that McDonald’s withdrew the offensive Custer figurines quietly and without comment.
My wife wants chicken McNuggets and a Coke.
The 140th Anniversary of the Washita Massacre of Nov. 27, 1868
The Cheyenne women were "transported" by an officer named Romero to the other officers once they were prisoners at Fort Cobb.
Rape.
Custer "enjoyed one" every evening in the privacy of his tent. Presumably, he stopped raping the Cheyenne women when his wife arrived.
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Custer's wife, Elizabeth (Bacon), whom he married in 1864, lived to the age of ninety-one. The couple had no children. She was devoted to his memory, wrote three books about him, and when she died in 1933 was buried beside him at West Point. Her Tenting on the Plains (1887) presents a charming picture of their stay in Texas. Custer's headquarters building in Austin, the Blind Asylum, located on the "Little Campus" of the University of Texas, has been restored.
Jerome A. Greene. "Washita." Chap. 8, p.169.
Ben Clack told Walter M. Camp: many of the squaws captured at Washita were used by the officers...Romero was put in charge of them and on the march Romero would send squaws around to the officers' tents every night. [Clark] says Custer picked out a fine looking one and had her in his tent every night."
This statement is more or less confirmed by Frederick Benteen, who in 1896 asserted that Custer selected Monahseetah/Meotzi from among the women prisoners and cohabited with her "during the winter and spring of 1868 and '69" until his wife arrived in the summer of 1869. Although Benteen's assertions regarding Custer are not always to be trusted, his statements nonetheless conform entirely to those of the reliable Ben Clark and thus cannot be ignored."
I forgot to add the salad.
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The fast food chain's decision to circulate the toy in Indian Country is akin to circulating a Hitler figure in Israel, according to Laurette Pourier, executive director for the Society for the Advancement of Native Interests-Today. "It's insensitive and disrespectful."
The 140th Anniversary of the Washita Massacre of Nov. 27, 1868
Stan Hiog. "The Peace Chiefs Of The Cheyenne." p. 174
Moving Behind, a Cheyenne Woman, later stated: "There was a sharp curve in the river where an old road - crossing used to be. Indian men used to go there to water their ponies. Here we saw the bodies of Black Kettle and his wife, lying under the water. The horse they had ridden lay dead beside them. We observed that they had tried to escape across the river when they were shot."
Location of Black Kettle's death
Warriors, eleven who died, rushed out of their lodges with inferior firepower to defend the village. Simultaneously, the overall noncombatants ran for their lives into the freezing Washita River.
(Taken with permission)
The words of Ben Clark, Custer's chief of scouts, brought the truth out after Custer distributed propaganda about one white woman and two white boys as having been hostages in Black Kettle’s village. There were no "hostages," a Cheyenne woman committed suicide. Speculating, here is why.
She didn't want her son mutilated by Custer or a 7th Calvary soldier; she didn't want her vagina ripped out and put on a stick, worn, or made into a tobacco pouch. So, she killed her son and herself first.
Jerome A. Greene. Washita. Chap.7. pp. 130-131
There, as the people fell at the hands of the troopers, one woman, in a helpless rage, stood up with her baby, held it out in an outstretched arm, and with the other drew a knife and fatally stabbed the infant - erroneously believed by the soldiers to be a white child. She then plunged the blade into her own chest in suicide.
(Location of the genocide at Washita, a few yards from Black Kettle’s death)
The 7th hunted them down and murdered them. Although the orders were to "hang all warriors;" it was much more convenient to shoot them. All wounded Cheyenne were shot where they laid.
I want Ranch Dressing with that salad.
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The "Night at the Museum" toys are scheduled to be distributed at McDonald's through June 18.
No thankyou, I don’t want apple pie. Can you break a $20 bill?
You can't? Well, Burger King is right across the street. Besides, they don't "have a toy (that) in Indian Country is akin to circulating a Hitler figure in Israel."
I am never, ever, ever, eating anything at McDonalds again.