mountaindew

Since elements of the Bush Administration recently publicly apologized to Iraq, an enemy of the U.S., shouldn't the U.S. Government then apologize to the native people for atrocities committed against them for actions such as Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, Palo Duro Canyon, etc.? I'm throwing this out for any comments because of the Senate Hearings on Iraqi prisoner mistreatment that were televised today.

Gache

retribution means retaliation
I think you mean restitution

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alamosaurus

Some of the worst massacres of native people by U.S.
troops in the second half of the 19th century:

Ash hollow, 1855. 86 Lakota Killed
Rush Spring 1858. 56 Numunu (Comanche) killed.
Bear River 1863. 278 Shoshone killed. Worst massacre in
the second half of the 19th century.
Whitestone Hill 1863. At least 150 Lakota killed.
Sand Creek 1864. At least 137 Cheyenne killed.
Wa****a 1868. At least 103 (111 according to Gache)
Cheyenne killed--all of them survivors of the earlier
attack at Sand Creek.
Marias River 1870. 173 Blackfeet killed.
Sappa Creek 1875. 27 Cheyenne killed--some burned alive.
Wounded Knee, 1890. At least 153 Lakota killed.

All of these deserve reparations.

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Gache

around 70-75 at fort robinson for cheyennes.
sand creek also had arapahoe but I dont know their losses I think at least 40 or more.

the navahoe walk where several thousand died too.
papagoes got massacred too but I dont remember when and how many.

some sources list bear river as many as 400

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