What did the indians do to General Custer's body?

What did the indians do to General Custer's body?

They put an Arrow shirt on it.

Probably scalped him poor guy.

Typical enlightened and peaceful people who lived with the land and it's spirits kinds of stuff

probably became a vengeful spirit to rape all of sitting bull's 1/53 great great granddaughters by proxy

Happy new year General Custer!

We took him to the loo

>When the main column under General Terry arrived two days later, the army found most of the soldiers' corpses stripped, scalped, and mutilated. Custer's body had two bullet holes, one in the left temple and one just below the heart. Capt. Benteen, who inspected the body, stated that in his opinion the fatal injuries had not been the result of .45 caliber ammunition, which implies the bullet holes had been caused by ranged rifle fire. Some time later, Lieutenant Edward S. Godfrey described Custer's mutilation, telling Charles F. Bates that an arrow "had been forced up his penis."

Fucking savages.

How did Bates know which penis used to be Custer's? Did he have its appearance memorized as a result of numerous up close inspections?

He deserved it.

>and people question why we herded the wild indians into areas where they could be managed

Presumably General Custer's arrow-filled penis was attached to the rest of General Custer's bullet-filled body.

Absolutely Barbaric

Damn, and they say that were the bad guys.

Mutilating bodies was commonly practiced by Euro-Americans throughout its history, including civilians, volunteers, militia, and regular army. Multiple accounts exist for the mutilation of the dead from the American Revolution up to and including the American War in Viet-Nam. War is hell and brings out the worst in people, especially Euro-Americans who self-identify as Christian.

No, it was not. Missing along with his scrotum and testicles. Also his personal engraved firearms, and unit colors, which were buried with Crazy Horse.

take your poisonous post and hide it where only food or your father dares to tread! :D

It- HE was cremated, with all funerary rites, of course —with all decorum...

It's true though
t. anyone who has a mild understanding of human history

>Historians still struggle to corroborate or disprove this claim. Some 50 years after the fight, two Cheyenne women asserted they had pierced George Custer’s ears with needles so he could hear better in the afterlife. Reports also circulated that George’s penis had an arrow rammed up it, a detail kept secret to protect his widow, Libbie. Mutilation of the enemy dead was a common practice among Plains Indians because they believed it would render one’s foe incapable of doing battle in the next world. Yet in both tales they came out long after the battle, without corroboration.

So the answer is we don't know

TOM Custer had been mutiliated, not George Custer

He deserved it.

Interesting we all assume they mutilated the dead and not the living, which is almost as likely.

Hahaha owned

As stated, mutilating the dead was a common practice for them

Based on personal accounts of the officers under Terry, all of the corpse, including George's were mutilated except Lt. Keogh, who the Native Americans all agreed was the bravest fighter any of them had ever seen. His body was treated with great respect, in spite of the fact that it held a powerful talisman much coveted. Native Americans commonly removed tattoos from enemy corpses, and were especially taken by the tattoos found on Euro-Americans. Lt. Keogh, by all accounts, had a large, well-detailed bald eagle spread across his entire upper torso which was intact and in place.

Sometimes, unfortunately, if you really pissed them off you were mutilated while you were alive was my point.

what the fuck is this "euro-americans" term

stop inventing or spreading weird nuspeak

Euro-American is a term used to identify a sub-group of humans that originated in Europe and moved to north America circa 1700s-1800s and mostly kept their European customs. they were transplants, not home-grown. Lt. Keogh, for example, was an Irish immigrant, born in Ireland. The Native Americans however were almost entirely born here.

They ate his heart!

Probably that was a coyote or dog or coy-dog.

> Native Americans

The Lakota and the other tribes were not "Americans" by any meaningful definition of that word.

America was a melting pot, and many Native Americans tried to assimilate with varying degrees of success. They were born in America, and is the most meaningful definition of the word.

Okay those ones assimilated into Yankee culture and became Americanized.

However Sitting Bull, Geronimo and the rest of their ilk were not Americans.

They would probably feel insulted if you called them one.

They deserved worse, to be quite honest

>let strawman argument face

People like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were real Americans. They were born of American earth and when they died they were returned to it, in the heart of America on the Great Plains. The loved this land as home, not as property. They had no desire to infect themselves with the sicknesses of Europe and will be offended if call them Euro-Americans when I meet them, but not by the term Native American. Of course, there the term will be meaningless, and we will all call each other what we really are, namely Human Beings.

Hear fucking hear!

by his definition a bison is an american

That is why the species found in North America is called the American Bison, as opposed to the European Bison.

They didn’t even call their land America and I doubt they would have even see it as their land. Frankly you are projecting a Western perspective on non-Western people.

You are correct about the projecting. The rest is irrelevant.

The best way to understand people is to always remember they are human beings first and last. Unfortunately most of us need labels like Western and non-Western, which can be useful as a form of short-hand provided you do not lose sight of them all as Human Beings. If you use labels their accuracy and usefulness goes up with consistency. If you hyphenate (I know, Native counts) the word American to label one group you have to label them all.

There is nothing wrong with projecting a Western perspective on both Western and non-Western people, provided you the project a non-Western perspective on both groups. And always remind yourself they are Human Beings and not labels.

You are robbing Americans of their birthright in saying that the roaming Indian lays claim to the title they bore out through their own toiling in creating a nation from the vasty strife laden wilderness of this continent.

During the period you are referring to very few, if any, of the people involved were from India. i see no reason to take that issue seriously.

I bet you are one of those people who believe Christopher Columbus named the Indian Ocean after native Americans. An alternate explanation for the origin of the word 'America' exists to Vespucci.

Nope, he got a haircut prior.

Natives didn't even recognize him.

Literally my revenge fantasy come true

t. unironic Dixieboo

Jesus you're annoying and stupid at the same time.

>especially euro-Americans who self identify as Christian
Okay, so you can’t set your bias aside and be objective, like at all?

i assume you are not aware that CC is the first person to use the term 'Indian Ocean' in writing. That is how he referred to the Cannibean Sea. As other people figured out he was wrong about the location of India they still used the term but transferred it to the body of water we use it for. So yes, CC named the Indian Ocean for Native Americans that lived in and around Cuba, which he thought was China.

The military units at sand Creek and Wishita Creek both had Christian chaplains assigned to them. Easy to find many other examples if you look. go for details.