Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "The Murder of Sitting Bull - Native American History - Part 4 - Extra History" video.

Most people in history get ignoble ends. He's no different.
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If it was sold as a historical, then it could work. I doubt it can be sold as an action movie or anything.
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@thalastianjorus No, it would do fine. Only European style flicks get diversity. Non-Europeans get faithful renditions. While beyond hypocritical, it would be to such a movie's benefit.
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Somewhat dramatic. And Sitting Bull hardly got the US to self-reflect; he was hardly anti-imperialist in mindset, after all. It was Americans that did that. But his story was interesting to say the least. And there is no question that he had arguably done more to fight against the US than any other Indigenous person, which was impressive considering the circumstances.
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@jordanbrown3109 Hmm. Fair point.
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Yeah, glorifying it is weird. But so is villainizing it. Conquest is conquest, and the Native peoples as well as the Americans were used to it. Natives were on the losing side is all.
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@noahjohnson935 Not true. The winners massively benefitted; and the losers lost land that their descendants could've used. Look at all of the big states today; their people massively benefitted from their ancestor's conquests. And no doubt, if your ancestors won, you'd be in a state far stronger that can allow your people to affect the world more liberally. In short; people are more bitter about losing than they are about the fact that conquest happened. As you may have garnered, Sitting Bull was not against imperialism. He was against imperialism against his people, and likely would be an avid imperialist if he had the power to be so.
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@Someonelse1224 Those hyper natio nalist ones that would prefer to see "their own" reign? Of course they do. Rus sians would also love to have won the Cold W@r.
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@danpatterson8009 Uh, its history. There is no such thing as history that doesn't have dark corners. Only Muricans delude themselves into thinking otherwise.
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@davidjennings2179 Idk how that's fitting. Sitting Bull's criticism meant very little in the end, its an observation that would fit every society in human history barring closeknit tribal structures that are easily destroyed by larger state structures.
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@davidjennings2179 On YouTube? No thanks. It'll just get shadow deleted. Just be aware that Sitting Bull's perspective was very colored by his culture, and his culture was incredibly insular and he did not do much introspection on how exactly you can solve poverty in a massive state. Because his tribal structure would never work for a nation with the size of the US.
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