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Originally Posted by MandoMan

When Little Big Man came out, I considered it one of the best movies ever made. Last time I saw it, I realized how politically correct it is. True, many American Indians were badly treated in the 1860s, and that is a horrible thing, but the film leaves out the fact that this was partly because of what the Indians had been doing. Witness the Sioux Massacre in Minnesota in August 1862, when 358 unexpecting settlers and 77 soldiers and 29 other volunteers were killed. This was why the government decided the Indians had to be moved onto reservations, but that isn’t mentioned in the movie. My ancestors arrived in Minnesota five years later from Denmark and were then safe from Indian attacks. Dakota War of 1862 - Wikipedia

Here’s part of what Wikipedia says about the movie: “Little Big Man is an early revisionist Western in its sympathetic depiction of Native Americans and its exposure of the villainous practices of the United States Cavalry. The revision uses elements of satire and tragedy to examine prejudice and injustice. Little Big Man is an anti-establishment film of the period, indirectly protesting against America's involvement in the Vietnam War by portraying the United States Armed Forces negatively.”

As the old quote goes, “History is Written by Victors.”