[whoaisme]

I always thought it was strange the way the Black Hills are said to be a sacred part of Lakota culture but they only held that area for not even 100 years between genociding off the origibal Cheyenne in the area and getting genocided by white settlers. Like how come their feelings about land they killed for mean more than other people who killed for the same land. It's strange how we treat Natives in this racist way where we ignore the fact that they were racist murdering people just like the Europeans.

[crunchyfrog]

All tribes were being pushed westward by white settlers and it inevitably led to conflict among the tribes. But Lakota definitely did not "genocide" the Cheyenne as is obvious by the fact that they still exist in Montana and Oklahoma.

And regardless, this has nothing to do with the US government signing a treaty giving the Black Hills to Lakota "forever" and then just a few years later driving them off the land. The US government itself says what it did was illegal by its own laws.