The words of Ben Clark, Custer's chief of scouts, brought out the truth after Custer distributed the propaganda about one white woman and two white boys. Here's what really happened using deductive reasoning, Ockham's Razor, and remembering that this Cheyenne woman had likely survived the Sand Creek Massacre four years earlier or knew it very well.
Since she didn't want her son mutilated by Custer or a 7th Calvary soldier; since she didn't want her vagina ripped out with a weapon and put on a stick, or worn, or have her reproductive organs made into a tobacco pouch - she killed her son and herself first.
Washita River in 1868
(Taken with permission)
Black Kettle and the Sand Creek Massacre of Nov. 29th, 1864 (Part 2)
U.S. soldiers inevitably chased the defenseless Cheyenne and Arapaho by horse and foot with knives and guns in hand. Their victims had to be positioned before ripping off their scalps, cutting off their ears, smashing out their brains, butchering their children, tearing their breastfeeding infants away from their mother's breasts, and then murdering those infants. The "Bloody Third" soldiers necessarily had to kill the infants before cutting out their mother's genitals.
The one question I never saw asked in the congressional hearings was, "Didn't you beyond disgraceful soldiers ever realize that they were all family?"
Kurt Kaltreider, PH.D. "American Indian Prophecies." pp. 58-59:
-The report of witnesses at Sand Creek:
"I saw some Indians that had been scalped, and the ears cut off the body of White Antelope," said Captain L. Wilson of the first Colorado Cavalry. "One Indian who had been scalped had also his skull smashed in, and I heard that the privates of White Antelope had been cut off to make a tobacco bag of. I heard some of the men say that the privates of one of the squaws had been cut out and put on a stick -"
John S. Smith:
All manner of depredations were inflicted on their persons; they were scalped, their brains knocked out; the men used their knives, ripped open women, clubbed little children, knocked them in the heads with their guns, beat their brains out, mutilated their bodies in every sense of the word - worse mutilation that I ever saw before, the women all cut to pieces -children two or three months old; all ages lying there.
From sucking infants up to warriors.
The fact the Sand Creek was a deliberate massacre is not contested, especially since the "Bloddy Third" set the village in flames and took all the evidence back to Washington to hide it.
A Cheyenne man spoke to me when I was at the Washita Battlefield. He said the elders said they didn't do ceremony yet (or maybe they won't; I can't remember exactly), because there's a lot of bad energy down there and something might be caught by or brought back with someone if ceremony is done. Apparently, I was so close to where the murders, mutilations, and the Cheyenne woman were; I had a horrific dream after my visit. It was about the Cheyenne woman who killed herself and her son, sparing her son and herself a worse fate. I woke up in tears, but then I remembered one less current fact about the Iraq War.
Killing Iraqi Children
By Jacob G. Hornberger
06/20/06 "Lew Rockwell" -- -- In a short editorial, the Detroit News asked an interesting question:
"Some war critics are suggesting Iraq terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi should have been arrested and prosecuted rather than bombed into oblivion. Why expose American troops to the danger of an arrest, when bombs work so well?"
Here's one possible answer: In order not to send a five-year-old Iraqi girl into oblivion with the same 500-pound bombs that sent al-Zarqawi into oblivion.
Of course, I don't know whether the Detroit News editorial board, if pressed, would say that the death of that little Iraqi girl was "worth it." Maybe the board wasn't even aware that that little girl had been killed by the bombs that killed Zarqawi when it published its editorial. But I do know one thing: killing Iraqi children and other such "collateral damage" has long been acceptable and even "worth it" to U.S. officials as part of their long-time foreign policy toward Iraq.
How many innocent children have been murdered since the war began? Is it 100? 1,000? 5,000? 10,000? Less or more?
The Obituaries Of King George's War
Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War on Iraq -At Least 655,000 + +
Is the answer over 200,000 innocent children murdered? It must be "worth it" to our congressmen and senators who condone it. Maybe this song was written partly for people like Joe Lieberman.
"Throw Away Children" by Ronnie James Dio
Oh-oh, the sun's gone down
Her day begins
And the rhythm of the darkness
Wakes the dead
Don't answer eyes that smile
Don't let them in
They see the lonely child
She feels their sin
But it's getting so much colder
And she's afraid
Never going back to where the pain was
She'd rather face the pain that's here and now
Someone's thrown away their children
You can see them running from your smile
Sing for the runaway children
The throw-away child
I'll make you safe and warm
Words she needs to hear
What they really mean is no more little girl
Don't see her anymore
They disappear
Yesterday they said that she was dying
And just today I heard that she was dead
The Cheyenne woman took me back in time to where she was by her lodge when the soldiers attacked in my dream. I became her and felt her terror in that horrific event, about a century and four decades ago. Before stabbing myself to death, I screamed and killed my son with the knife. I heard her say these words as I was saving my son and myself from the worse fate of being mutilated, "Don't let them kill my son. My son is their future."
Dreams may just be dreams, but the murdering of innocent civilians consisting of men, women, and children in this illegal and immoral war is no dream...nor nightmare.
To reiterate, perhaps story of reconciliation and forgiveness will make more sense now, and will have more meaning. I sincerely hope that it does.
Poll question information:
*(And thanks to Rippen Kitten for polling advice)
No dream:
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Power kills, absolute Power kills absolutely. This new Power Principle is the message emerging from my previous work on the causes of war1 and this book on genocide and government mass murder--what I call democide--in this century. The more power a government has, the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more it is diffused, checked and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide.
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Rwanda: Thousands killed while the world remains silent
At least 6,000 people -- the majority unarmed civilians -- are reported to have been killed in Rwanda between January and August this year, according to Amnesty International’s latest evidence. Many unreported deaths mean that the real figure may be considerably higher.
U.N. court finds Srebrenica deaths were genocide by Alexandra Hudson
THE HAGUE, 26 Feb 2007
8,000 Deaths
Nor Nightmare:
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- post-invasion excess deaths in Iraq (as of February 2007) total 1.0 million and under-5 infant deaths 0.6 million –
evidence of gross Coalition violation of the Geneva Conventions; and there are 3.7 million Iraqi refugees.
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