Re: Selected programming for May 26-April 1, 2025

On May 26, 2025 at 7:18:10 AM PDT, "Robin Miller"
<robin.miller@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Sitting Bull     [new]      (9 and 10 pm, two episodes, History Channel)
 
The four-hour documentary series offers an overarching exploration of
the remarkable life and accomplishments of the fiercely brave yet humble
Lakota chief from his origins as a tribal warrior, to his involvement in
defending native lands, to his leadership in guiding the Lakota people
through a tumultuous time in American history.

Chief Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux Nation and Hunkpapa Lakota Tribe vs
Colonel Nelson Miles, Commander, 1st Division, II Corps, United States Army

MILES: Sitting Bull requested this council. We await his words.

SITTING BULL: Take your soldiers out of here. They scare the game away.

MILES: Very well, sir. Tell me then, how far away should I take my men?

SITTING BULL: You must take them out of our lands.

MILES: What precisely are your lands?

SITTING BULL: These are the lands where my people lived before you whites
first came.

MILES: I don't understand. We whites were not your first enemies. Why don't
you demand back the land in Minnesota where the Chippewa and others forced you
from years before?

SITTING BULL: The Black Hills are sacred land given to my people by
Wahwontoka.

MILES: How very convenient to cloak your claims in spiritualism. And what
would you say to the Mormons and other who believe that their god has given to
them Indian lands in the West?

SITTING BULL: I would say they should listen to Wahwontoka.

MILES: No matter what your legends say, you didn't sprout from the plains like
the spring grasses and you didn't coalesce out of the ether. You came out of
the Minnesota woodlands armed to the teeth and set upon your fellow man. You
massacred the Kiowa, the Omaha, the Ponca, the Oto, and the Pawnee without
mercy, and yet you claim the Black Hills as a private preserve bequeathed to
you by the Great Spirit.

SITTING BULL: And who gave us the guns and powder to kill our enemies? And who
traded weapons to the Chippewa and others who drove us from our home?

MILES: Chief Sitting Bull, the proposition that you were a peaceable people
before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all. You
were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped
foot on this continent. You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and
their lands, just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a cause.

SITTING BULL: This is *your* story of my people!

MILES: This is the *truth*, not legend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1y_0NfhF9c