Quote Originally Posted by Wakizashi
Little Big Horn is kind of an interesting place to go. When your there it's pretty obvious why Custer's force was slaughtered.

Wounded Knee Where Big Foot and Tribe was massacred by the American Army. You wouldn't know it when your there that so many innocents were killed in the name of Manifest Destiny.
I grew up just a short distance away from the site of the Bear River Massacre in southeastern Idaho, where a group of California volunteers on their way to the Eastern U.S. to fight in the Civil War stopped to "fight" a Shoshone-Bannock tribe because of reports that there had been a theft of some livestock. Anyways up until the early 1980s it was listed in Idaho history books as the Battle of Bear River, when the name was officially changed to The Bear River Massacre and the site was placed on the Historic Landmark Register. It was not a significant event in any historical sense, but growing up by it has left me with a realization that a great many terrible things have occurred in the history of the U.S. on its way to "greatness".

P.S. I'm not trying to make a political statement just attempting to give a sense of my reaction to having visited that particular battlefield.