The Railroads then take the land they got for free and sell it to the settlers, using a massive advertising campaign that promotes the West as an uninhabited paradise. Robert Redford’s The West aka The American West I: America Divided, AMC 2016
In 1866 Crazy Horse takes place in a bloody campaign throughout the Wyoming territory. In the span of six months dozens of settlers are killed, and movement throughout the territory is restricted. ibid.
On November 27 1868 George Armstrong Custer leads a brutal attack on an Indian camp near the Washita river. An estimated 150 Cheyenne are killed and what remains of their village is burned to the ground. It will come to be known as the Washita massacre. Robert Redford’s The West aka The American West II: Two Front War
Custer’s mission was to put an end to Indian attacks in the West but the fighting persists. ibid.
Sitting Bull knows his people need to form a united front so he calls a meeting of Lakota leaders. ibid.
Custer believes that defeating Sitting Bull will be the crowning achievement of his military career and will clear a path straight to the White House. Robert Redford’s The West aka The American West IV: Showdown
Celebrated civil war hero George Armstrong Custer and over 250 of his men lay dead on the battlefield of Little Bighorn. ibid.
Despite winning small battles against the US army, the struggles for the Indians are only getting worse. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s strategy of exterminating the buffalo is working as more and more Indians face starvation. Robert Redford’s The West aka The American West V: Outlaw Rising
The government isn’t content just to tell the Indians where to live: they’re also determined to change their culture. It’s a policy known as Assimilation. ibid.
Sitting Bull realises he has no choice but to lead his people back to America and agree to live on the reservation. Robert Redford’s The West aka The American West VII: Frontier Justice
The Indian population, once estimated at over 300,000, has been cut in half. Robert Redford’s The West aka The American West VIII
Long ago on the mid-western plain men and women gather to watch the skies … An extraordinary civilisation arose in southern Illinois … Their lives were ordered by a profound understanding of nature and the universe. In Search of s3e11 … Indian Astronomers, 1978
Mysterious Native American architecture. Two thousand year old petroglyphs. And known hotspots. Ancient reports of unidentified lights in the night sky and alien contact can be traced through the history of America’s indigenous peoples. UFOs: The Lost Evidence s2e7: Native Americans & Star People, Discovery 2019
The ancestral Pueblo lore is filled with stories of other-worldly beings that came from the sky. Beings that brought with them knowledge and spiritual guidance. ibid.
Puebloans: Where did they get that information for longitude? ibid.
He’s a smuggler ... You don’t need papers or anything. Frozen River 2008 starring Melissa Leo & Misty Upham & Charlie McDermott & Michael O’Keefe & Mark Boone & James Reilly & Dylan Carusona & Jay Klaitz & Michael Sky & John Canoe et al, director Courtney Hunt, Lila to Ray
I’ll give you half now let’s go. Let’s go! There’s no border here; this is free trade between nations. ibid.
Why don’t you come hunt one for me then? Wind River 2017 starring Jeremy Renner & Elizabeth Olsen & Graham Greene & Kelsey Asbille & Gil Birmingham & Julia Jones & Martin Sensmeier & Althea Sam & Teo Briones & Apesanahkwat et al, director Taylor Sheridan, her to him
Anything’s better than being here; that’s the way they see it. ibid. reservation rozzer
By the spring of 1756 the American frontier is a war zone as the French employ their Native American allies to ramp up attacks on British settlers. Washington s1e1: Loyal Subject, History 2021
The Myth of Pristine Wilderness: a land with no people does not exist. The idea that America was virgin land, a wilderness inhabited by non-people called savages, is a myth. Only through killing and displacement does it become uninhabited. Before the arrival of the British, north America was a continent of villages, of nations, of confederations of nations. Exterminate All the Brutes IV: The Bright Colours of Fascism, HBO 2021
Kill anything that moves. Take no prisoners. In California, hunting Indians was both legal and profitable. $5 a head, 50 cents a scalp. In 1849 the American government paid more than a million dollars to Indian hunters. ibid.
By 1890, disarmed, held in concentration camps, their children taken away half-starved, the Lakota and Dakota survivors found a new resistance: ghost dancing. ibid.
Wounded Knee Massacre: East Indians killed: 300; Survivors: 51 (4 men, 47 women), Army casualties: 25 dead. ibid.
Frank Baum: The pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends on the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better in order to protect our civilisation follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the Earth. The fact is, the Native Americans are still here, and this is still their home … The real fight remains the fight for self-determination and restitution. ibid.
Lost souls on a pile of human confusion. The absence of any trace of empathy and genuine humanity is unbearable. The nightmare is buried deep in our consciousness. So deep that we do not recognise its ghosts. ibid.
A staggering 95% of the indigenous population [Native Americans] would eventually die from smallpox … Smallpox ran rampant for thousands of years. It is estimated the smallpox has killed between 300 and 500 million people in its more than 10,000 year existence. The UnXplained with William Shatner s2e6: The Mystery of Plagues, History 2022
The Octopus: a conspiracy that went into the very top echelons of the United States government. The Corbett Report: Requiem for the Suicided: Danny Casolaro II: Hunting the Octopus, James Corbett online
1981: The Cabazon triple homicide … Tribal leader Fred Alvarez and his friends … executed by a Mafia hitman … to expose and document what was taking place out there at the Cabazon Indian Reservation. ibid. Cheri Seymour, interview Coast to Coast, author The Last Circle
Wackenhut chose the Cabazon Indian Reservation to develop weapons there. ibid.
Over a thousand years ago an ancient people built a thriving metropolis that dominated an entire continent. It was bigger than either medieval London or Paris. But this mighty city was not in Europe, it was in North America and it was built five hundred years before Columbus arrived. At the heart of their city they built a pyramid to rival those of ancient Egypt. Yet this vast settlement remains one of the most astonishing mysteries of western archaeology. An ancient city that vanished as suddenly as it had arrived. So what happened? America’s Hidden Pyramid City: Ancient Mysteries, Channel 5 2017
French explorers named it Cahokia after the native America tribe they found living there. ibid.
The ancient Cahokians commanded a trade network that extended right across the modern United States. ibid.
‘Cahokia is a city far larger than we ever imagined.’ ibid.
Home to over 20,000 people. ibid.
The shift to a warm wet climate meant Cahokia could grow corn all year round. ibid.
Monk’s Mound is up there with the greatest pyramids on Earth. ibid.
Danger Man told me that the promised software modification was just one tentacle of a larger intelligence operation in southern California. Here at the Cabazon Indian Reservation a team of gun runners, gamblers, and covert Intelligence operatives would find sanctuary from all state laws. American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders II: The Trap Door, family, Netflix 2024
Oklahoma: I don’t think it’s Mvskoke Media; I think it’s more our tribal government departments. They’re holding back information from even being released. Storyville: Bad Press, man, BBC 2024
Eufaula: Three top officials were arrested and charged with taking tribal funds. ibid. radio host
Even with the free press law, it’s still fragile. ibid. journalist campaigner
2018: There is legislation introduced tonight in emergency session … a bill to repeal the historic free press bill. ibid. radio host
Angel was fired in 2011 after breaking the embezzlement story. The official reason for her firing was ‘insubordination’. ibid. caption