On 11/12/2015 09:45 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:01 PM, <dan@geer.org> wrote:
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. -- Sitting Bull, 19 July 1881 This quote does not mean what you think it means..
Maybe yes... Maybe no. But Chief Joseph meant EXACTLY what he said: "General Miles said to me in plain words, "If you will come out and give up your arms, I will spare your lives and send you back to the reservation." General Miles had promised we might return to our country with what stock we had left. ... I believed General Miles, or I never would have surrendered." --Chief Joseph, Nez Perce" From "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs." North American Review, vol. CXXVIII, 1879. RR