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15 Jul, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Crazy Horse’s cousin Touch the Clouds (Teton Lakota.) Earned his name in battle—and also because he stood 6’9”. The ideal Lakota akicita (warrior.)
Touch the Clouds got his tremendous height from his father, Lone Horn (1790-1877), who was 6’8”. Crazy Horse was his nephew. Touch the Clouds brother (Spotted Elk) ascended to Chief of the Miniconjou Lakota after Lone Horn made the journey to the afterlife.
Touch the Clouds brother, Spotted Elk (Chief Bigfoot) was massacred by the U.S. Army, along with 350 Miniconjou Lakota elders, women, some pregnant, and children at Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890.

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16 Jul
Women of the Sauk and Fox Nations disguised themselves in battle dress attire to fool adversarial tribes. To make their male warrior army appear more numerous.

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You recall our last discussion vis-a-vis Indigenous women warriors? It would not surprise me if Sauk and Fox women fought along side their men. With the same exquisite ferociousness as Pretty Nose (Arapaho) and Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Cheyenne)—heroes of Little Bighorn slayed. ImageImage
1870–Gouyen (Apache) hunted down and scalped a Comanche chief for killing her husband. She tracked him to his camp and seduced him. She then took her knife and stabbed him to death as he slept. Gouyen rode back to her camp on his horse, carrying his bloody scalp all the way. Image
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15 Jul
Let’s get one thing straight—Natives were never conquered. Our land was stolen through 500 years of cheating, swindling, lying and bamboozling by greedy, predatory, unscrupulous non-Native colonizers—this is an historical fact.
I was taught settler propaganda in school. I was indoctrinated to believe the Columbus “discovery” fallacy. Then one day I went to my local library—and saw the light.

The U.S. illegally rescinded every single treaty it signed with its Indigenous populations. Every. Single. One.
Settlers descended upon the land of my grandfathers like malevolent white locusts. A plague of disease infested vermin. 50-100 million Indigenous people succumbed to the smallpox they brought with them. They were not “conquerers”—they were carriers of deadly pathogens. Like rats.
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6 Jul
The dumbest thing anyone’s ever said to me was, “go back to your country.”’
So I pitched my tipi up in his backyard and was like,—“I’m home bitch, what’s for dinner?”
These fucking colonists brought their laws and their religion, but did they bring any land? I didn’t think so.

This makes them tenants—and rent’s way past due.
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25 Jun
June 25th 1876, two Indigenous warrior women, Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Cheyenne) and Pretty Nose (Arapaho) participated in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Buffalo Calf Road Woman (left) killed George Custer, clubbing him on the head, while on horseback—ending his reign of terror.
George Armstrong Custer’s Crow and Arikara scouts repeatedly warned him not to take the 7th Cavalry down into the Little Bighorn Valley. When Custer arrogantly refused to do so, they began to sing their death songs. Custer’s entire command was wiped out that day. June 25th, 1876.
When Mark Soldier Wolf returned from the Korean War in 1952, his 101 year old grandmother, Pretty Nose, hero of Little Bighorn was waiting. She was adorned in buckskin and her cuffs signified her rank as a war chief. As he approached her, he could hear her singing her war song.
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Ancient Indigenous cultures throughout North America have the same stone etchings of giant winged beings—reportedly visiting them—long ago. Then abruptly leaving, without a trace. Image
Hopi Holy Ghost pictographs, some dating back 10,000 years, depict the same giant anthropomorphic entities found in a myriad of Neolithic civilizations across the globe. I believe their origins hold extraterrestrial significance. ImageImage
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The U.S. slaughtered 150 million buffalo—and then had the nerve to call Natives savages.
“Why couldn’t they just leave us alone? We never killed more than our fill. And less than our share. Can they ever say the same?”
“Whatever you do to the animals—you do to yourself.”
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