It happened according to legend but was it technically "murder" if we were technically at war with the belligerent Native Americans? How is the shooting deaths of women and children different from the incineration of tens of thousands of women and children if the intent is the same? I forget, were the Feds awarded medals after incinerating 80 men women and children at Waco?A lot wrong with this post. First it didn't 'allegedly' happen. It DID happen. Second, it had nothing to do with a war or even a battle. It was a massacre. A massacre of hundreds of innocent women and children. The U.S. government demands you speak of was our refusal to stop dancing. Wovoka, or Jack Wilson as he became known as because we were given 'American' names (not allowed to use our names in the land of the free), founded the 2nd Ghost Dance movement. The government forbade this. We believed the Ghost Dance would render us impenetrable to the white man's bullets and would raise all the dead warriors so that we could kill off our oppressors.
For this the government gave the soldiers medals.