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| The Battle of Crow Buttes in 1822 |
| 2021-12-25 |
| [TheFirstScout] CROW BUTTES, S.D. - In 1822, the Lakota and the Crow engaged in an outright battle here at this site, now called Crow Buttes. According to the research conducted by the Butte County Historical Society and the Game, Fish, and Parks Commission, a Lakota war party came upon a Crow camp and utterly ravaged it and violated the women. The Crow wanted revenge, and left what was left of their village (elders, women, and children) north of the buttes at Sand Creek. The Crow war party ascended the larger butte for a better vantage of the broad landscape. It was a hastily recruited war party and they brought only weapons, no water. The Crow war party was surrounded at the butte, pinned there by the Lakota war party. The weather on the plains being as it is, semi-arid, no rainfall to relieve the Crow war party was in sight, and they perished from lack of water. More at the link. A video discussion about the battles. Video at the top of the page. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 ^ only much more violent. Warfare as sport, culture. Violence as a way of life. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-25 13:30 |
| #1 This is should explain why the Crow were scouts for the US Army. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. No, Virginia, the aboriginal natives of North America were not peaceful angels. They were as hierarchical, tribal and territorial as any humans. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-12-25 07:44 |