[HN Gopher] The Lakota: A Human Story
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The Lakota: A Human Story
Author : apophasis
Score : 19 points
Date : 2021-01-20 21:57 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| 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._
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| 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."
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| 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?
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