Fin vs History Going Back In Time To Smush Hitler’s Cheeks | The Battle of Little Big Horn (Part 4/4
Apr 16, 2026
They revisit the aftermath of Little Big Horn and the reinvention of Custer as a martyr. They probe US policies: reservations, boarding schools, and the sell-or-starve tactics. They trace the Ghost Dance, Wounded Knee massacre, and how those tactics echoed into later global violence. They end by examining survivors, Buffalo Bill tours, and the long legacy of reservation life.
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Starvation Policy Forced Sioux Onto Reservations
- After Little Bighorn the U.S. government moved to coerce Sioux onto reservations using rations as leverage.
- The 1877 'sell or starve' addition cut rations until tribes surrendered the Black Hills, effectively nullifying treaties.
Boarding Schools Were Tools Of Cultural Erasure
- Boarding schools aimed to erase Native languages and identities by renaming children and cutting family ties.
- Hosts describe forced haircuts, Protestant conversion, and sexual abuse as part of assimilation practices.
Allotment And Blood Quantum Devastated Native Landholdings
- The Dawes/Allotment approach parceled communal land into individual plots and applied blood quantum rules.
- Native land dropped from 138 million acres to 48 million by 1934, destroying nomadic lifeways.