EPISODE 17 The War for the Black Hills (Part 2): The Long Defeat

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 125 minutes

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“…And together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.” J.R.R. Tolkien “I shall have glory by this losing day.” William Shakespeare “Oyate kin ninpi kta ca lecamu yelo” (“I do this so that the people may live.”) Lakota song “My mind was occupied mostly by such thoughts as are regularly uppermost in the minds of young men. I was eighteen years old, and I liked girls.” Wooden Leg To the Lakota people, the Black Hills of South Dakota were—and still are—‘the heart of everything that is.’ To the United States, they were a goldmine, and Manifest Destiny’s next target. It was for the Black Hills that the Lakota went to war against the United States for the last time. In this episode: -When he is not attacking camps full of women and children, Custer is a sensitive guy who cries at the theater -How Grant, Sheridan, and Co. engineered their own version of the Gulf of Tonkin incident -Frodo, the destiny of Middle Earth and Sitting Bull -Custer decides to challenge Grant over corruption -Lost in presidential dreams, Custer probably never realized he was being set up -An American army that wasn’t really American -A soldier’s scalp in an abandoned village -The Battle Where the Girl Saved Her Brother -Cross-dressing Crow warriors -Custer: “Why are you doing all this?” Half Yellow Face: “Because you and I are going home today—by a trail that is strange to both of us.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whether you like history or not, if you care about bravery, wisdom, passion, larger than
0:06.4	life characters and some of the most emotionally intense moments in human experience, you have
0:11.1	come to the right place.
0:13.0	Danieli Bollelli is a university history professor, writer and martial artist, and he shall be
0:17.5	your guide and a journey to the place where history and epic collide.
0:30.0	Danieli Bollelli is a university history professor, writer and a journey to the place where history and epic collide.
1:00.0	Have a few announcements before we get going with this episode, but they are important so please bear with me.
1:07.0	Blue Apron.com has decided to sponsor this episode, as well as one episode a month for the rest of the year.
1:14.0	This should be welcome news to history and fire listeners, because it means that I will be releasing 11 episodes
1:23.0	including this one before the year is over. Plus the one I've already released in January.
1:29.0	My original goal was to release a 7 or 8 more, but the support from Blue Apron has convinced me to release more content than I had anticipated in 2017.
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2:19.0	Something else that should be of interest to history and fire listeners,
2:24.0	bearing and foreseen circumstances this summer I'll be part of a tour of the very locations of the events narrated in this series.
2:34.0	From June 13th for the following couple of weeks I'll be participating in this tour organized by Geek Nation tours.
2:42.0	They will take us through Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana, will be visiting Fortfield, Kerni,
2:49.0	the location of the Fetterman fight, the Black Hills, the location of the Battle of Wolf Mountain,
2:55.0	Battle of the Rosebud, and an epic one day horseback ride through the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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