George Armstrong Custer Quotes
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
He and the 7th Cavalry were themselves whipped and killed shortly thereafter.
Shortly thereafter the woe was transferred to Custer as he was wiped out at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
The Lenape Tribe (Delaware Tribe) were the strongest Indian nation in America until they were supplanted by the Iroquois and then dominated by the Colonial whites who took much of their land. See {592309}.
Enemy captives were sometimes adopted by Indian families to replace a lost loved one.
They stopped and a massacre was averted.
The Mormons, not unlike other whites at the time, in effect invaded the Indians’ land, and took possession. At first the Mormons tried to convert the Indians and when the Indians preferred their own religion, there was constant occupation of Indian land in the Salt Lake Valley.
Note that he assumes that not only will there be another World War, but he assumes that we will be on opposite sides.
His specialty was early American history. The early colonists believed that the Indians in America were descended from the lost tribe of the Jews. Therefore, they saw it as their duty to educate them and bring them into the Christian fold, as they had never yet had the chance. Harvard in its earliest days had what and Indian students. King Phillip’s War with some Indians had soured the views of many whites and soon Harvard adopted an all white policy.
George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
