Review: CUSTER HAD IT COMIN'
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2013
This one book reveals more nasty government and settler dealings with an indigenous people than I have yet read. This book doesn't speak only of the Cheyenne, but includes many other plains Indians.In this book you'll read of a Methodist minister who enjoyed murder. After I read of his deeds I can only believe he would make a good roommate for Adolph Hitler.I read again how buffalo were nearly wiped out, not to create stylish coats and hats like my American history book told me, but in an effort to starve the many plains Indians who relied on it for meat.I read again and again, multiple times in this book, how Cheyenne reservation land was given to settlers.But for the very first time in reading so many books about Native American tribes, I read something positive.The Cheyenne have divided themselves into two groups. Their northern group had built homes both on and off reservation land. A certain organization saw to it that they received title to the land where homes were built off the reservation.Wow! I'll tell you this: it wasn't the Methodist Church.But when you pick this book up, get ready to read about man at his worst. Promises broken. Lies spoken.It's a sad book.But it's still a part of this country's history- a part that won't get taught in high school. If you want to know the whole picture, you're going to have to look for it yourself.This is a good start.