American Indian... The 7th Cavalry... And... "Battle of the Little Big Horn".

 Colombus and his party put their feet down... They mistakenly thought it was India. 

In the land of America, there were peaceful people who lived even before Europeans entered. 

They are the American Indians. 

The people I am historically and emotionally attached to are Mongolia, Manchuria, Turkey and this American Indian.

After Columbus's footsteps, Europeans, who came in from Puritans on Mayflower, who escaped persecution, expanded their territory by beating the ground by establishing a country called the United States. Sometimes with money, sometimes by deceiving, sometimes by killing...

Their enthusiastic way of playing American football is a sport that shows the era of western pioneering in the United States, which gradually expanded its territory to the west after landing in the early East (in other words, it reflects the spirit of pioneering era's challenge, and the blood of many Native American Indians is invisible). - Hereinafter, I will call you Indian.

In the 1800s, when the U.S. government was all-in on picking up new land, 

The main stumbling block was the Indians, who most feared early immigrants trying to advance to the west.

The Indians confronted the U.S. government and immigrants threatening to sell or leave the land, and clashed with immigrants who were constantly trying to advance into the West to secure gold mines and pastures. 

It was a situation. 

The most famous one is "The Last Resistance of the Custer".

Also called Custer's Last Stand or Battle of the Black Hills,  

It was "Battle of the Little Bighorn". 

The battle, in which the U.S. 7th cavalry Lieutenant Colonel Custer and the spiritual idol chief Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse of the American Indians clashed, was a historical event that brought many changes to American society as well as the battle itself.   

In 1870, the United States was incorporated into states in the eastern and western parts of the United States, but some parts of the Midwest were still undeveloped areas. Among them, Dakota, which was located on the border with Canada, is based on the Missouri River. 

The west was designated as an Indian reserve.  The incident occurred in the Black Hills Mountains, located between South Dakoda and Wyoming.

The tragedy began when a gold mine was found in Black Hills, designated as an Indian reserve. Many U.S. migrants invaded Indian reserves in search of gold, and in the process, clashes between Indians and U.S. migrants increased. Black Hills, which was a sacred place for Indians, as an outsider.

When the Sui and the Shaians formed an alliance to protect them from the field and formed a large unit, the U.S. government forcibly pushes the Indians west and dispatches troops to develop the Black Hills area. 

Three commanders, Terry, Kiburn, and General Crook, led the troops to the area, of which Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was deployed under General Terry as a regiment leader with 657 subordinates.

In June 1876, Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry entered Black Hills with Lieutenant Colonel Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the forefront. Lieutenant Colonel Custer, who was instructed to wait without starting a battle until the cavalry's main unit arrives as much as possible, unexpectedly changes the operation by meeting about 40 Indian warriors by the Little Big Horn River. Lieutenant Colonel Custer, who decided to launch an attack in a hurry before it became known to the entire Indian unit that the U.S. cavalry appeared, plans to attack the entire regiment.   

Lieutenant Colonel Custer disperses the regiment into three battalions, having Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen lead one battalion each, while the remaining 200 lead themselves to the campsite of the Sujok.

However, he did not know that the Indians, which 657 U.S. cavalry had to deal with, were at least three times as many as Custer's solidarity just by the number of warriors due to a large shortage. 

In a fight that was unlikely to win even if the entire regiment was mobilized, ignoring Brigadier Terry's waiting order, he made an irreversible mistake by dispersing the number of people into three units. 

The Indian tribes confronted the great chief "Sitting Bull," his valiant warriors and nephews, "White Bull," "One Bull. 

The Sioux and Cheyenne alliance, led by the legendary warrior Crazy Horse, which was feared by the U.S. cavalry, was the strongest force with 7,000 tribesmen and tens of thousands of warriors.  Thousands of elite Indian warriors with a strong will to fight to protect Black Hills were holding out in front of the Custer Regiment.

Among Custer's troops, 175 soldiers joined the battle. 

It was the battalion of Lee Know battalion. While the main unit led by Custer moved along the river, the Rino Battalion crossed the river and began attacking from the south. However, Lee Know, who faced strong resistance immediately after the battle, was embarrassed by the unexpected strong counterattack and stopped the attack. After a 10-minute battle, Major Reno immediately crossed the river and retreated, and the Sujok and Cheyenne warriors chase them fiercely.

Lieutenant Colonel Custer's 210 troops are also discovered by Indians while Major Reno's battalion retreats urgently. Of the three tribes (Lakota, Oglara, and Hunkpapa), the Oglara, the Hunkpapa, and Cheyenne, led by the great warrior Crazy Horse, are surrounded by thousands of Indians as the rest of the Indian troops pushed away by the Custer unit. 

 Custer, who was pushed to the Last Stand point, instructs his subordinates to shoot the horse they were riding and knock it down when they were unable to break through the retreat. The horse's bodies and horse saddles were piled up to make cover, and they tried to hold out until the rear support unit arrived.  

However, all troops, including Custer, had a numerical advantage and was unparalleled in bravery. 

They are wiped out in less than an hour.  

The Indians, who believed that if they damaged the body, they would be cursed for not being able to rest forever even after death and walking on the underworld path, undressed the dead US cavalry soldiers, and damaged the body in their own way. However, Custer's body, who was wearing leather clothes instead of military uniforms and cutting his hair short, avoids the Indian curse because of the civilian costume (how much he looked down on it, the commander is not wearing the military uniform, not taking a walk). It is said that only his body was intact among the bodies of the wiped out troops. The Indians, who destroyed Custer's main forces, attack the remaining troops of Captain Rino and Bentin again, but the Battle of Little Big Horn ends as large cavalry escapes and steps down as large cavalry approaches from the large cavalry approaches. 

In a way, it is only a simple battle in which cavalry was smashed by an Indian who looked down on with dog bones due to the commander's mistake in judgment.  27 Indians were killed in the battle, while more than 300 Custer troops were killed.  

But the problem is that this was the deadliest defeat in the U.S. government's anti-Indian combat. 

In the U.S., where pride was hurt, the point of Custer's annihilation 

It was named Custer's Last Stand and used as a political propaganda tool for territorial expansion while heroizing them who were wiped out after fighting until the end. Until then, politicians and soldiers who had been lukewarm or conflicted with Indian policy were justified in Indian oppression. After the defeat, large-scale military action took place, and most of the American Indians were massacred or expelled to Canada, almost disappearing from history.      

Initially, the Black Hills area was an Indian protected area, and the conflict was caused by the greed of white people who invaded the protected area without permission in search of gold, but artificially manipulated all cases by glorifying Custer as a hero. 

The battle broke out to return the Sujok Warriors who had invaded the white residence beyond the protected area to their original residence, and in the process, the Custer unit was adapted into a hero story that was completely destroyed after bravely fighting to the end despite numerical inferiority. Custer emerged as a symbol of patriotism in the American pioneering era. 

But the funny thing is... 

Black Hills (Mountain Rushmore), where Custer's Battle and Little Big Horn Battle took place, has a "big rock face" statue that we all know well.  The rocky mountain, named Mt. Rushmore National Monument, is magnificently engraved with the faces of a total of four former U.S. presidents, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, 18 meters high. 

I don't know if it's because they want to show that they're the last winners, but out of all those vast American lands... 

But the Indians who were the original owners of this land and who had fallen into ethnic minorities. The descendants of the great chief Sitting Bull and the legendary warrior Crazy Horse, they began construction in 1948 to record their own history on a mountain range 27km away from Mount Rushmoa.  

In 1876, he began to make a statue of Crazy Horse, the man who annihilated Custer's American cavalry in the Battle of Little Bighorn and a warrior who died resisting the American cavalry who invaded Indian land to the end. 

171m high and 201m long, making it the world's largest statue. 

One so-called CrazyHorse Memorial was started by a chief of Sujok who visited Polish-American sculptor Kozak Giorkovskiki (1908-1982) who participated in the Rushmore Sculpture Project.

Since Kozak, who deeply persuaded Sujok chief's sincerity, began his first hammering in 1948, construction has been underway since his death. The U.S. government has rejected the U.S. government's offer of $10 million in support and is covering the entire construction cost with tourism income. 

But still, where have you seen or heard the story of the Battle of Little Big Horn recently? 

It will be a movie called Avatar. 

All the motifs of this movie were brought from this battle. 

Substituting the characters, stories, and backgrounds in the play, you will soon see how similar they are.

Now that I think about it, most of the American Western films I watched as a child depict Indians as uncivilized, violent, and cruel people. Like that, I thought the Indians were all bad villains, and cavalry soldiers were cool, righteous, and loyal soldiers. 

However, as I grew up, I learned that it was not. 

So I no longer watch Western films featuring John Wayne and others. The logic of power... In a way, it's one of the historical distortions that glorify the painful and shameful self-portrait of the United States. Macaroni Western, who doesn't even let them join Western films because it's rather crude, draws fairly.

And there is an authentic western film (based on that in the United States) of an old black-and-white film depicting the pioneering era of Shane. The villains in the movie are white gangsters, who bully innocent farmers, drain the ground, and even kill people. Of course, the main character Shane takes care of everything with one hundred people. The scene of the final duel with the villain in the movie and the scene where the kid calls Shane leaving alone and follows him is a famous scene that remains in the history of the movie. Among the famous authentic Western films, it is a rare movie that does not feature Indians as villains. 

The reason for this story is that at that time, the real villains of the Western pioneer era were white gangsters. The Indians never bothered or killed pioneers unless they touched them or the land first. Rather, they taught agriculture and livestock to settle their pioneers and treated the sick. 

However, history is always the winner's own record. 

The history of the winner becomes a political affair, and the history of the loser is reduced to the theory of fieldwork or conspiracy. 

It should be remembered that there is no guarantee that we will not be trapped in a protected area, looking at the percentage of Indians (0.8%) of the U.S. population now. It is a story that we will keep in mind that we have already experienced in the not-too-distant past and are still living in a reality where the influence still exists.