Ernie Lapointe
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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He stood on it and stomped his foot and they all became man and woman. He told me, he says, now, he says, live on this island, he says, and take care of all living things that grows from it to balance the ecosystem, he says, and you will live. From then on, he created other animals like the buffalo, the deer, the trees. He said, I'll have a spirit. He said, I'll respect and take care of it.
He said, take care and nurture this turtle island. So that's why we call this Black Hills the heart of the turtle island. See, everything has a story of our creation here. And it's a beautiful story. It's a beautiful way of life. For thousands of years we lived on this turtle island. We never destroyed it.
In 1876, when this battle happened, they're already separating the natives. They make promises to them. And, you know, they have a lot of these natives that lived around these forts. They call them hang around the forts. They give them beef to survive on. And then you had the non-treaty Indians, we call them. These were like my grandfather. And Americans call them hostiles.
They weren't hostiles, they just didn't want to... gravitate toward becoming part of the system of getting handouts from the white man. So they lived all over the areas where the white man feared to come in there because, again, fear. Instead of coming there with peace, they wanted to come and fight him and stuff. But their main goal in this whole existence was gold.
And gold to the Lakota is a worthless iron ore. It has no spiritual value. I mean, a rock has more spiritual value than gold. Ein Stück Gold, ein Goldnugget. Aber sie konnten nicht verstehen, warum ein Amerikaner seinen eigenen Freund töten würde oder seine eigene Großmutter's Geist verkaufen würde. Und das ist es, was sie gemacht haben. Sie haben Gold in den Black Hills entdeckt.
Hier, wo wir leben, wo ich hier lebe, wir leben in diesem Ort, den Sie nennen Home State Goldmine. Sie hielten Gold. Und sie entdeckten, dass es Gold ist. Und wenn sie es gemacht haben, gaben sie den Black Hills-Treaty, das Geheimnis der Lakota, aus dem Fenster. Sie brachten ihre eigenen Treaty. Auf der anderen Seite kam das Wort an alle non-Treaty-Native aus Sula Baster.
Ich meine, du sprichst über das Internet, du sprichst über Telefone und all das. Der Moccasin-Telegraph ist viel schneller geworden. All the non-natives know about this in an instant, how they do it. Even now, today, it's still like that. My wife and I were talking about it the other day. You do something or say something out here, the people in eastern South Dakota know it.
And they're not using telephones or computers or nothing, they just know. They called it the Moccasin Telegraph. But that's how they knew. And word went out to all non-treaty natives. My grandfather sent it out. He wanted to do a council with the white man. How do they honor what they said on their treaty? He said he didn't believe that they were going to honor it anyway.
But how are they going to protect it? Okay. But on the other hand, the Americans didn't know about this. They heard that my great-grandfather was calling a meeting, a council. All non-treaty Indians were coming together up in Montana. So they created three columns of soldiers, you know, one coming out of Fort Laramie. You know, you had Krug, Gibb, and Custer, and all these guys.
Custer was coming out of Bismarck, North Dakota, to converge and to trap them and to annihilate them. That's what their thing was. There's no council or talking. They just wanted to go battle with them. But my grandfather was... So the whole camp moved. They got to the river and they crossed it and they... Trees are the camp.
And they were waiting for others to come so they could hold this council. Well, Custer had left earlier and he had a force march. He made his men ride day and night to try to encounter the natives. And so that's how the battle started. I mean, that's how it ended up when he came. And he was hot-headed and he was egotistical and he wanted to
After he killed off all the Lakota, he was going to be president. He was going to run for president. He had already had the vision read. And he told the people to beware of it. And when Krug came out, they thought that was the vision. He said, no. He said, this is not the vision. He said, it's coming. Well, when it came...
Again, I always emphasize the fact that women are the wisest of the whole thing. So my grandfather went into his teepee, and he was in his 40s by this time, and he comes out carrying his weapons. And as he walked out of the teepee, his mother was waiting for him. And she stopped him. She says, you have done enough for the people. You have protected, provided.
She says, but you let the young men show their worth, show their expertise in combat. She says, take the non-combatants to a safe place and you'll take care of them there. Die Kinder, die alten Leute und alle anderen. Also hat er es gemacht. Er hat keine... Er hat seine Mutter gehört.
Und das ist, das ist, wo... Ich meine, er hatte bereits all diese... Er hatte so viel... Er hat seine eigene Bravour auf dem Kriegsfeld gezeigt. Gegen andere Niederländer. Und auch gegen die Non-Niederländer, die Weißen. Aber er hat seine Mutter gehört. Er hat die Non-Kombatanten genommen, um die jüngeren Männer mit Kostüm zu kämpfen.
Natürlich war es die Union, aber es gab keine militärische Sache. Jeder Einzelne hat seinen eigenen Stil des Kampfes. Das nennt man Guerillamord. Ich habe das in Vietnam gesehen, als ich da war. Die Guerilla, so waren sie. Sie waren Guerilla-Fahrer. Ich meine, sie kämpften nicht in Gruppen wie die Amerikaner, wie Platoon und andere. Und man musste auf einen Manns Ordnung folgen.
Du hattest dein eigenes Instinkt, wie du kämpfst. Du hattest dein eigenes Instinkt, wie du weißt, von wo sie dich schießen können. Du hattest dein eigenes Instinkt, wie du das tun kannst. Und das ist, was sie mit Crook verwendet haben.
Wenn man die Geschichtebücher über Crook lesen kann, General Crook, als er im Kampf gegen den Rosebud war, hat er gesagt, man, es waren wahrscheinlich 2.000 hessische Soldaten, aber in der echten Realität waren es wahrscheinlich 60 Soldaten, nach dem Mathematik, die nach seinem Kolumn von Soldaten kamen, es waren nur 2.000 von ihnen.
Und Crook dachte, er war ein wildes Nummer, aber es war ein Guerilla-Fight. Du hattest ihn in strategischen Bereichen, also in einem Kolumn, um es zu sehen, als wäre es mehr als ungewöhnlich. Und das ist es, was ihn zurückgezogen hat. In the same way, if you read about the Custer, even today, the Custer Buster trying to find out why, or tell stories why Custer lost. Because he was a great hero.
And they said he outnumbered. He was outnumbered, which wasn't true. My great uncles told me there was probably... 600-700 Männer im Kriegszeitraum, die Kriegsküste. Es gab keine 25.000 Indiener. Sie hatten mehr Pferde als Menschen.
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