Chief Bigfoot's Band was intercepted by the 7th Calvary on this day in 1890

[kdmorris]

11. Good point

Perhaps "remember" isn't the best word. I just get so irritated when people do nothing to educate themselves on matters of history and then have an opinion that is so ignorant of what has happened in the world. So many times, before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, I heard people around me say that we HAD to do it because Hussein was a dictator that massacred people. But then, when you ask if that then means that Andrew Jackson should also have been overthrown (by the British, maybe, since the Native Americans would have been better off with the British than the nascent American government), they really don't know what you are talking about.

I grew up in the same school systems and learned the same bullshit about how we are so great. I celebrated Columbus Day and then grew up and learned that none of it was true. Christopher Columbus was an awful, evil guy who tortured and decimated the native population of Hispaniola. He wasn't some noble, great dude that found the "greatest country in the world".