Death of Custer, scene by Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show performers c. 1905 of Sitting Bull's stabbing Custer, with dead Native Americans lying on ground
On June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Battle of Little Big Horn) Lakota, Arikara, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho defended Sioux and Cheyenne families living in south central Montana in a battle with the Seventh Regiment of the United States Cavalry.
As explained in An Indigenous Peoplesโ History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, adapted by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza:
In June 1876, a large encampment of nontreaty Sioux and Cheyenne families was gathered along the Little Bighorn River. Later that month, Custer and the Seventh Cavalry prepared to attack the encampment, but warriors led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull successfully intercepted them. Most textbooks call this the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but Lakota and Cheyenne people, especially those whose ancestors defended the encampment villages, know it as the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
Sioux chief Sitting Bull and Lakota leader Crazy Horse directed their warriors against Lieutenant George Armstrong Custerโs regiment of over 225 cavalry men near the Little Bighorn River. Custer and his men died in the battle, and the united tribes claimed victory over the U.S. military that week.
But the victory against the United States was short-lived. Crazy Horse died in 1877 in U.S. military custody, as that government worked steadily to disarm the nations of the western plains and force their people onto reservations. Sitting Bull lived another 14 years and was murdered at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation by an Indian Agent. He was targeted for his political power and his participation in the anti-imperialist spiritual movement, Ghost Dance.
Marble markers for the Seventh Cavalry were erected in 1890, but it was not until Memorial Day of 1999 that red granite markers were added to the historic site to honor the memory of the Lakota, Sioux, Arikara, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho who died the week of the Battle of Greasy Grass.
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Would anyone find it at all interesting if I posted about my local Anabaptist (Great Value Amish) community?
These people are out here running a society on compressed air and hand cranked flip phones.
how do they compress the air?
Get this: diesel air compressors.
They refuse to connect to grid electrical power because it would make them dependent upon the English. (rest of society, confusingly they also call francophones English) But petroleum products? Yeah baby, drill drill drill, we'll keep buying that shit!
So they're just preppers with a folksy pr image?
For the most part, yeah. That's kind of the whole philosophy of the intentional communities that Anabaptists and other Radical Reformers have built, essentially committing to a maintaining a given level of separation from outside society. They are disconnected from our society, but they analyze different pieces of technology and see if they're useful for their society without enabling people to exit their society or retract from the social community.
They hold property in community. Cars are restricted so that people can't spread out too far from eachother and so that people can't move away. No texting or cameras or internet access, but some communities in the area allow flip phones that can only make calls and do GPS. They basically want to be able to maintain a society that wouldn't be fractured by the breakdown of outer society, so a theoretical out for them if petroleum becomes inviable would be to use wind-powered air compressors. This is currently under evaluation.
I think a Pneumopunk Amish society powered by wind turbines, solar heaters, and compressed air could be in the cards.