Availing himself of the innate Apache love of fighting, he offered full army pay to warriors willing to turn against their own people (he had plenty of takers).
Scattered about were nude, scalped, and beheaded bodies bristling with arrows. Brains had been scooped out, and penises severed and shoved in the victims’ mouths. The evidence of torture was unmistaka...
The Army and Navy Journal labeled the latest raids simply one more chapter in the old volume, the result of alternately feeding and fighting the tribes. We go to them Janus-faced. One of our hands hol...
In a little depression there lay outstretched a stalwart Sioux warrior, stark naked with the exception of a breech clout and moccasins. I could not help feeling a sorrow as I stood gazing upon him. He...
We] picked them up, that is, their internals, and did not know the soldiers they belonged to. So you see, the cavalryman got an infantryman’s guts, and an infantryman got a cavalryman’s guts.
Major Brown called on them to surrender; the Yavapais responded with hoots of derision—that is, until rocks rained down on them, hurled by soldiers who had clawed up the palisade to the bluff overlook...
Sitting Bill returned from the East with an enlarged worldview that not only made him more independent of the agent but also deepened his contempt of the white way of life. First, Sitting Bull set his...
The Lakota warrior Iron Hawk later explained why he had pounded a trooper’s head into jelly. These white men wanted it, they called for it, and I let them have it.16
Peculiar and difficult to gauge, with eyes that were really not open and transparent windows to his soul.
I do not wonder, and you will not either, that when Indians see their wives and children starving and their last source of supplies cut off, they go to war. And then we are sent out there to kill them...
The Pawnees did most of the killing at Summit Springs, and they killed without mercy. The Cheyennes expected as much. I do not belittle the Pawnees for their killing of women or children because as fa...