You have brought this history so vividly to life, that it feels as though it happened fairly recently, which only emphasises our sadness and pain. That you have now finished your story is also sad: it has been the podcast of the year, for me, at least.Thank you very much.👏👏👏
@robbieclark7828Ай бұрын
It really did happen fairly recently.
@VaucluseVanguard2 ай бұрын
Just joined from Bangui in Central African Republic. A bit late, but you have fans everywhere!
@halfaquarter23082 ай бұрын
@VaucluseVanguard Best wishes from Wales, UK
@Elementarywatson648Ай бұрын
Couldn’t sit through three episodes of game of thrones but delighted in 10 hours on Custer and crazy horse. Well done limeys.
@fleurs12342 ай бұрын
This sad story is brought to life by 2 men talking into a microphone. Well done chaps.
@mc.83912 ай бұрын
I read the Dee Brown book many years ago and I had to write to the author because I was so moved and appalled by what had happened at Wounded Knee....I have never forgotten it . . . and these 2 men have brought it back to life again.....well done......I am a Brit btw not an American or an Indian American.....
@mattsstuff12682 ай бұрын
Very well done. I can't imagine that I would've sat through 11 hours on a topic in which I was already well versed, but that I did. Despite being well read on this topic, I managed to pick up new details, and you managed to keep it interesting. As an American, I can say I am impressed by your perspectives and that you have correctly picked up on the nuances in this inevitable clash of cultures that many miss.
@cherylhuffman1104Күн бұрын
I listened to the bitter end! As an American, it was interesting hearing this story from outsiders. Thank you for showing good and bad from all persons and groups instead of good guys and bad guys.
@WargamingHistory2 ай бұрын
Epic guys, thanks again. I was lucky enough to study history in Australia with an American lecturer on US history at ANU. This series has kindled my interest in the Indian plains wars once again. Keep up great work Matt Mayenne, France
@johnnyallen5736Ай бұрын
Just outstanding . So good--I will be going back for the whole series.
@boyscott71932 ай бұрын
What an engagingly presented series. Thank you for getting below the surface of the popular myths of these times, characters and events
@mrmoospoos2 ай бұрын
Superb series and a fitting tribute to the history and people of the lakota. Thank you! Really enjoyed it.
@cyclofeedubox83322 ай бұрын
Nuanced, intelligent, interesting, ponderous, funny and heartbreaking in equal measure. Brilliant
@susanharris84062 ай бұрын
This makes me weep
@killerswamiАй бұрын
I heard a story about a Navajo tour guide who was telling a gaggle of tourists in Navajo country a tale of a Navajo princess and a young warrior with some supernatural elements, blah blah. Afterward a tourist approached the guide and said he’d heard a remarkably similar tale from a Hawaiian guide while in Hawaii. The Navajo laughed and said he himself is a tour guide in Hawaii in the winter and the guides casually swap and retrofit such tales for the local they are working.
@naomiseraphina9718Ай бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to do such a wonderfully deep dive into the stories of these largely forgotten events. I think they deserve to be remembered, and I thank you, as an American, for adding to my store of knowledge concerning the the history of my country. All the best to you both, Naomi.
@tokyobear12 күн бұрын
Epic series. Watched every single minute and have recommended the series to all my friends. Thanks.
@Kyle-ls7gp20 күн бұрын
Absolutely great podcast Ive read several books on this topic and some of the details you guys discuss here really bring these characters to life! Great job. As for Americans current view on Native American history, we have been given the guilt trip (correctly) for decades by Hollywood with films like Little Big Man, Dances With Wolves, Avatar, etc etc. Colombus day previously is called Indigenous Peoples Day and yes Thanksgiving always brings up the realities of how thankful those pilgrims acted several years after the first thanksgiving (celebrate with a decapitation anyone!?). American guilt is widespread in this issue
@JohnathanBruner-t2d2 ай бұрын
New subscriber from Texas. Great explanation of the "Last Stand." I have visited all the places Custer ever served. I'm originally from Michigan. My studies of Custer at the Horn do show that Custer was, as in your discussion, attempting to surround the woman and children to get the warriors to surrender. Custer had used that maneuver in previous scenarios. Look at the Battle off Washita in Oklahoma. Approximately 700 Indian horses were killed after the battle. Custer was a fascinating character. Where did Custer get all the money for expensive photographs taken of himself? I know he left debt. I think his own book, "My Life on Plains" offer great insights as does his wife Libby's book about the Plains.
@cynthiaedmonson86222 ай бұрын
Thank you for this series, it’s been very educational. I have learned more about my country’s history in regard to Native Americans than I have in my formal education. As with every country, I suppose, we are not taught about the dark underbelly of our history and what has been perpetrated in the name of Christianity. Thank you again!
@terraflow__bryanburdo45472 ай бұрын
Or in the name of "progressivism".
@ToddSauve2 ай бұрын
Those who call themselves Christian are not always the genuine article Cynthia
@mirrage422 ай бұрын
Read Empire of the Summer Moon by S C Gwynne.
@grahamwritesagain2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this brilliant conclusion, gentlemen. You've created something heartfelt, insightful, memorable--and fitting. I visited the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre in July 2009. It was one of the saddest, most depressing places I have ever been. The reservation itself was severely depressed economically, so there was a deep sense of despair and total poverty. But it went beyond that. There was a terrible pall overhanging the spot where the massacre itself took place as if the ghosts of the Lakotas and the troopers who died there still haunted the site.
@jabonorte2 ай бұрын
Tragic story, really well told. No need to worry about the length of these series - it could have gone on hours longer and I would have enjoyed it more
@marys337942 ай бұрын
I have watched and followed this fantastic and sad at the same time podcast series on the great plains and on before, during, and after the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the sad and hard years after that for the native American tribes whose numbers were vastly reduced and forced into the reservations when their way of life was gone or torn from them.
@mv11000Ай бұрын
This was just fantastic. Don't thank us for watching, WE are the ones receiving the gift of your podcast :)
@ScottGchips2 ай бұрын
A true banger of an episode.
@TheChuck1812 ай бұрын
This was a great series gentlemen. Thank you!
@sartanawillpay79772 ай бұрын
The Hotchkiss guns used at Wounded Knee were not "machine guns." They were breech-loading mountain guns firing a small shell (1.65 inch). They were deemed "rapid fire" in comparison to earlier muzzle loading cannon or cannon with heavier shells, but the breech had to be manually opened and a shell inserted to be able to fire. They had both explosive and canister rounds. A five barrelled "Gatling " type revolving Hotchkiss existed but these were not at Wounded Knee despite some internet claims.
@jeremiahchamberlin44992 ай бұрын
Thank you for the clarification, I was having trouble making sense of the Wikipedia article on the subject, especially since they give the inception of the ‘Hotchkiss machine gun’ as 1914 in the context of WWI.
@sartanawillpay79772 ай бұрын
@@jeremiahchamberlin4499 There are many accounts in reputable sources that describe "machine guns" or even "Hotchkiss Machine guns." Even Encyclopedia Britannica's online article on Wounded Knee makes the claim. The Hotchkiss guns were certainly deadly during the massacre but their rate of fire is greatly exaggerated.
@bobslug2 ай бұрын
You are indeed correct. The particular type of Hotchkiss gun at Wounded Knee were not the machine gun type (or Gatling guns). They were small breech loading cannons.
@jeremiahchamberlin44992 ай бұрын
@@sartanawillpay7977 At least we don’t have to go to the US Supreme Court for the definition of ‘machine gun.’
@unappreciatedtreehouse8212 ай бұрын
From America, very good show. Whenever I do my work I can listen. I look forward to my chores.
@alleganja2 ай бұрын
What a series.! Wow guys thank you.
@waltervanderkamp7422 ай бұрын
Now I am taking time off work to listen to your podcast. I want to feel like there is something like truthfulness occasionally manifesting in the matrix of your conversation. Very important to know these stories. Thank you for bringing them to life.
@pashaofstuttgart2 ай бұрын
Hats off gentlemen! Absolutely fantastic series. Like most of them that I’ve listened to thus far, I can’t stop listening and put put them down. Well done.
@j.st.jamesesq.95992 ай бұрын
We’re at episode 11 so nobody’s listening anyway. Nay, nay! I LOVE your discussions!
@LittleLouieLagazza2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this series.
@adamstrudwick-long90742 ай бұрын
Absolutely loved this, I’m sure my wife equally has greatly enjoyed listening to my numerous attempts to interest her in the subject. Never listened to this podcast before but looking forward to catching up on the back catalogue.
@kelleyfrench96632 ай бұрын
What an absolutely wonderful series. As an American, I am embarrassed to admit my lack of knowledge about this part of our history except in the most general terms. Every American knows the names Sitting Bull and Custer and Wounded Knee and Little Big Horn, and the general history of the Native Americans' relegation to the reservations. But the devil is truly in the details, and this was just a fabulous, informative and well-researched series. It amazes me that there aren't millions of subscribers to this channel. Thanks to you both for a great, great series. Look forward to the next topic. :)
@personofinterest87312 ай бұрын
Loving your history. Thank you from South Africa 🇿🇦💜
@JayShackleton-dv9tm28 күн бұрын
Excellent series, full of new information to me
@davidcoleman279616 күн бұрын
Fascinating stuff. Right from the start. I only knew about 50 % of the history . Thank you . Also thank you for the laughter . You 2 guys are great . 😂
@davidbliss92772 ай бұрын
One of my favorite books is Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Did my Research paper on it as an Undergraduate. Professor said to keep going with it onto Grad School.
@seriouslyyoujest17712 ай бұрын
Enjoyed this important take of American History. Im eagerly anticipating to watching all of your other collaborative works! This is certainly right up with there Paul Cooper’s The Fall of Civilization which I’ve watched every one multiple times. And Mike Duncan’s 36 episodes, the Fall of Civilization podcast. Thank you very much!
@avs43652 ай бұрын
Simply wonderful series, thank you so much.
@gemellodipriapo2 ай бұрын
Great vid! Thank you! Buffalo Bill came to London and performed at the Earls Court exhibition centre ... several native Americans died whilst in London and were buried in Brompton cemetery ... In the 1990s Native Americans came from the US and exhumed the bodies to take them back home. There was a religious service at St Luke's Church in Redcliffe sq. Sadly one of the bodies could not be found. It's fascinating how close to us in time this is ... It's also fascinating how history repeats itself ... all this is happening now ...
@showze212 ай бұрын
heres a great book on the subject, "Sitting Bull: The Life and Times of an American Patriot." Distinguished historian Robert M. Utley has forged a compelling portrait of Sitting Bull, presenting the Lakota perspective for the first time and rendering the ...
@dsjwhite2 ай бұрын
Wonderful, thank you
@YellowHammer262 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed the series, thanks.
@Kathy-ub8ur2 ай бұрын
Thanks for discussing the reaction of the press. I was curious about that, though the account was very depressing as usual. I am reading Blood Meridian now and it is brilliant. New sub.
@IanCross-xj2gj2 ай бұрын
Gall 4:26 Appears to be a figure of some historical relevance. 25:40 Wounded Knee. Great podcast 👏
@jamiesonhusbandson55452 ай бұрын
More superb content. Thank you.
@launiesoult32482 ай бұрын
I don't know if you mentioned it but there were 20 medals of Honor awarded to the people at the wounded knee massacre that is terrible
@Rosary-CrusaderАй бұрын
Can you please do Geronimo and the Apache on your channel?
@george2219992 ай бұрын
The juggernaut of first world wealth creation is still here
@rtk35432 ай бұрын
The juggernaut of mass migration is still here.
@terencepeck30702 ай бұрын
many years ago i stood at this mass grave before there was a fence around it, a very sad event, i am still shocked today as i was then
@ronlynch22822 ай бұрын
The 7th calvary were so proud of themselves they awarded themselves 20 Medal of Honors for their service at Wounded Knee massacre.
@southlander20232 ай бұрын
Son of the Morning Star was a great book. Loved the movie too.
@Osentalka2 ай бұрын
Great, thanks guys.
@susanthoms62682 ай бұрын
I hate our history of treatment of Sitting Bull...tragic and shameful.
@petebondurant582 ай бұрын
@susanthoms6268 The natives meted out similar treatment to other natives. They weren’t any more or less noble than anyone else in history.
@eshaibraheem42182 ай бұрын
I've watched all 6,000 episodes, and still want more. It's been wonderful. Terrible, too.
@paul_hiles2 ай бұрын
Thank you chaps! Your stalwartness to finish this series echos that of the last tribes in the subject. 😂
@jonnyheenan2 ай бұрын
A squabbling squalid and immensely unsatisfying ending of what was a great, great story that befits the reality of the whole affair.
@jnauttube2 ай бұрын
In the movie, "Hostiles", the Comanche are not portrayed in a positive way, and the other tribe that's being escorted by the cavalry soldiers refers to the Comanche as being of "unsound mind".
@Sumonebody2 ай бұрын
The final final final part!
@ThomasTill-l7j2 ай бұрын
Buffe Saint Marie was actually an adopted member of a tribe.
@eminentbishop1325Ай бұрын
The way the Lokata are commodified by the Americans reminds me of the way the Roman's would treat Sparta.
@sawahtb2 ай бұрын
I've always wondered if the Native Americans should get some hot shot lawyers to get them restitution.
@50Quid-d3xАй бұрын
That's not how the world works! Sadly...
@halfaquarter23082 ай бұрын
Humour is the difference between this show and the rest. Huge fan here; 350 lbs last time I checked.
@gentlebreeze64142 ай бұрын
I 'm struck by the toll telling this history has on the tellers. The horror of it all has Dominic ready to boil over.
@docastrov90132 ай бұрын
Bury my boredom at Wounded Knee.
@Wee_Langside2 ай бұрын
The Type 92 Japanese heavy machine gun was developed from the Hotchkiss machine gun series. It entered service in 1932 and was the standard Japanese heavy machine gun used during World War II.
@sartanawillpay79772 ай бұрын
The Hotchkiss guns used at Wounded Knee were not "machine guns" they were a small single-shot breech-loading cannon. the M1875 Mountain Gun.
@johnrohe15472 ай бұрын
Teddy Roosevelt might give people a good idea of how the next generation were looking for glory through battle.
@LukaTripkovicАй бұрын
This series made me so depressed. The land of the free.
@d.c.88282 ай бұрын
@53:17 This is a really striking interpretation.
@richardcutt7272 ай бұрын
Ghost dancers in the sky - eye 🎶 🎵
@richardcutt7272 ай бұрын
Lt Wallace was with Lt Charles Varnum at Wounded Knee. Wallace was killed. Varnum saved his friend Wallace's life at the LBH. Wallace was the topographical officer with the Custer Battalion. Varnon asked Custer to allow Wallace to accompany him into the valley fight, and not to stay with the 'coffee coolers'. Custer laughed and said to Wallace, OK go.
@MichaelDembinski2 ай бұрын
Amazing to think that less time separated the Wounded Knee Massacre from Pearl Harbor than today from the Three Day Week.
@d.c.88282 ай бұрын
Three-Day Week?
@jackkelsey93262 ай бұрын
Coal miners strikes in Britain during the early 1970s caused energy shortages that induced a shortened working week.😢 ,w@@d.c.8828
@SuziQ4992 ай бұрын
Tom is right most people would change their views and sympathies about the Lakota if they learned the same Lakota killed Pawnee women and children three years before LBH their are no good guys or bad guys just progress.
@richardcutt7272 ай бұрын
Varnum being chief of scouts at the LBH.
@davidcoleman279616 күн бұрын
Jesus . Terrible ending of Siting Bull and his poor son . What a crime . It is all so Tragic . America has so much to answer for . I am a proud canadian. We have our history but we were never this bad .
@churchmanautohaus5602Ай бұрын
First, I love this podcast, it has quickly become my favorite, but cowboys never found Indians? Have you never heard of the Comanche and the Texas cowboys?
@jayb2762 ай бұрын
The Dancing Horse. Write a Screenplay!
@showze212 ай бұрын
after little big horn, sitting bulls faction traveled into canada, where they mostly starved to death during the first brutal winter. sitting bull was depressed after this disaster, he was forced to return to the reservation, right?
@richardcutt7272 ай бұрын
Indeed. Another My Lai.
@jaycarl44862 ай бұрын
Absolutely brilliant ending to a great series on the natives of the Great Plains, well done gentleman! 🏆 Point of information: The Hotchkiss Mountain Gun was not a machine gun or Gatling gun. It was a 42 mm rifled canon which shot a 2-pound projectile, which in some ways is even more horrifying, as it was designed to replace the 1841 Mountain Howitzer (a 12-pounder). Imagine being hit by a 1.65 inch, 2-pound projectile, not a pretty image. I've attached a link to a short video clip. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4OrhK1-oNOkg6c
@gerardvandermeulen6212 күн бұрын
The Nazi's were in fact very much inspired by the story "how the West was won". Tried the same in Eastern Europe...
@johncanzoneri47716 күн бұрын
The Lakota? How much do I love thee? Lewis and Clark stated 1805, "they are the biggest miscreants of the upper Missouri River", 1850`s Gratton massacre, 1862 Minnesota uprising 800 whites massacred-butchered, 1866 Fetterman 80 soldiers massacred, 1867 Army patrol massacred,, 1872 Pawnee Massacre 100 plus women children, 1876 Custer massacred, and anyone else including any other tribe the nomads incountered. The army had all other plaines tribes joining in to hunt down the Lakota? Why was that?
@Manofthewhiteknife2 ай бұрын
What happened to the 7th in Vietnam was just as bad as the little bighorn...
@keithkaosHarv2 ай бұрын
I like these two but I nodded off after part 4.
@robinhard1112 ай бұрын
All so desperately sad, hard to listen to at times.
@justme8837Ай бұрын
I live in AZ and I know some Navajo / Dine' and they also run a lot of casinos in AZ and are getting their payback with all the gamblers, : )
@showze212 ай бұрын
sitting bull is murdered by a reservation tribal faction before wounded knee
@brucepeek39232 ай бұрын
Hey sartanwillplay guy- you are absolutely right about non peer reviewed poorly educated historians like these guys. They always make major factual errors, most often about key facts. In this case its got to do with calling hotchkiss single shot break action cannon being called machine guns.. This is really just a fairly inaccurate conversation between people who vary in their truth they tell. best Bruce Peek
@jenjen.rutherford85592 ай бұрын
Which key facts have been misrepresented please educate us ?
@sartanawillpay79772 ай бұрын
I pointed out the error, I never said anything about their capabilities as historians.
@Kyle-ls7gp20 күн бұрын
On the guilt issue, I dont think the Native guilt is as big as the slavery guilt mostly due to the black Americans much greater influence on American society post slavery (music, sports, politics etc). Also there is the out of sight out of mind issue, Native Americans mostly have stayed in their reservations and if they have come out have been able to mix in easier than Black Americans who did not have reservations and often moved in big block migrations first from the south into urban areas for industrial jobs ie Chicago, Oakland and then back into South in places like Atlanta, these migrations were large and fast and therefore whipped up anti-black sentiment quickly in mostly white areas. These large migrations did not happen with Natives.
@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf2 ай бұрын
In your revision fellas could you do some on the countless native atrocities mainly done on other tribes. Can i suggest Empire of the Summer Moon by S C Gwynne for one great read. The Comanches are soft and cuddly in that one and show how warfare and torture was endemic in the good ole days.
@michaelkennedy33722 ай бұрын
Oh dear...you obviously didnt watch the earlier episodes. 🙄
@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf2 ай бұрын
@@michaelkennedy3372 Yeah mate i did some. Still make out the indians as nature loving hippies and that just wasn`t the story
@jenjen.rutherford85592 ай бұрын
I think we must have watched different podcasts because it has been very clear that Lakota were in no way peace loving or even liking .
@R08Tam2 ай бұрын
This series has been fascinating but also tragic. A tale of genocide. Quite why some of them embraced Christianity, the religion of their oppressors, is beyond me.
@SleepyScooter2 ай бұрын
Because you don't get the separation of man's actions and God's. The pilgrims told the Indians about God and salvation. The sinfulness of man's hearts caused the war between land and property.
@b1laxson2 ай бұрын
Aggressive and abusive treatment of the next generation of children in the Residential Schools. The new kids were treated with "save the soul, kill the Indian" including physical punishments for speaking their own language. It wasn't that the Christian-Catholic god was nicer... more like the priests continued the brutality. Growing up the children were denied access to their culture while being fed the colonizer's ideology. Something that is being undone in places like Canada's "Truth and Reconciliation" efforts.
@beachcomber1able2 ай бұрын
Go back to sleep, Scooter.
@gentlebreeze64142 ай бұрын
It is only 'beyond' you because you are unable to consider the question beyond the assertion of your own prejudices. Christianity is a universal faith; it does not 'belong' to anyone.
@beachcomber1able2 ай бұрын
Might be universal but it's not the only religion. What does that suggest to you!
@tokyobear12 күн бұрын
Johnny Cash - Custer song. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXTSfoaArtd7pLs
@davepannekoek15622 ай бұрын
Final Part??? Really? Hmmmm
@showze212 ай бұрын
The oldest trend in human history is tribal hunter gather groups being assimilated into agrarian societies. Why? Because agrarian societies can support a much larger population than a hunter gather society.
@CinRife2 ай бұрын
My fam was in this massacre
@richanglin79942 ай бұрын
I have enjoyed very much listening to your series. No serious disagreements with much of what you presented, other than alluding to Custer's "presidential aspirations" (no real historic basis for this assertion). What happened to those nomadic people groups who came to North America before the arrival of the Europeans is certainly lamentable, but no more so than the victims of other clashes of civilizations and cultures (e.g., Genghis Khan, Muhammed, Alexander). There was never going to be a good outcome for all parties to the conflict. So too, while the deaths of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull as relatively harmless prisoners might be considered tragic, no more so than the death blows that they, and others, inflicted upon those who were not/no longer capable of harming them. Violence does beget violence, and they were violent men. The human race is truly a violent race.
@robertalpy2 ай бұрын
So natives loyal to the United States are shameful? The crow, Oneida which is Issac Parkers triple and about 1 3rd of all native tribes along with any tribe that the souix abused on the great plains will be happy to hear that. You have a very progressive view on the past. It doesn't really align with that time and wouldn't work for either side of that conflict.
@christopherhall13362 ай бұрын
I would love a western film to be made about the massacre of native Indians and the cavalry and the white man to be portrayed as the villains. I’m not sure if it would be received well in Hollywood and in the cinemas. However, I think it’s time the story was told. I must admit I’ve watched westerns when I’ve been left with a lot of sympathy for the Indians. They’ve portrayed overly keen commanders or corrupt reservation agents as the villain. Included in the story was a central Indian character, who had to take his people to the reservations or be massacred after standing ground on the plains. Americans are so proud of their constitution- Everyman is equal etc however, we know when to this day, it’s not true. I think more people should hear the story and stop seeing the natives of any country, as the savages.
@jcr_jcr2 ай бұрын
No film company, director, producer or any amount of money in the world would do an adequate film of the persecution of native American Indians.
@GusShredny2 ай бұрын
They got treated better than many of the smaller tribes that they wiped out.