r/Fauxmoi • u/mlg1981 • 11h ago
STAN / ANTI SHIELD Indigenous Veterans dance on General Custer's flag at Black Hills Powwow after a reenactment of the victory at the Greasy Grass. (October 11, 2026)
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u/stillsympin 9h ago
As an indigenous person I can't stand the idea of our people enlisting. The Department of Defense currently has weapon systems named after conquered tribes that they use on other indigenous populations. Fuck man this same military is helping another colonial body do mass extermination of another indigenous group right now.
Why the fuck would I enlist in the same army that has a helicopter named after my tribe, the Apache, that's currently supporting the vaporizing of a people who look suspiciously like myself.
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u/airgl0w 8h ago
Hate how predatory it is and a tool that people are forced to use to escape poverty and/or receive a higher education. The system working as designed yet again
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u/CalligrapherSharp 8h ago
Yeah, this is a feature of genocide. Same with the English dressing up schoolgirls in Scottish warrior regalia. First you kill the people, then you co-opt and trivialize their memory.
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u/towelracks 1h ago edited 1h ago
Sorry, but plaid and tartan in school uniforms is something imported to the UK from AMERICAN Catholic schools in the 50s and 60s. It doesn't have anything to do with Scotland.
As far as British "co-opting" tartan, that happened due to the strength of the Scottish regiments in the British Empire, which made tartans fashionable throughout the upper classes.
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u/dohmestic 8h ago
Grew up with kids from Mescalero. The recruiters that came onto campus made a beeline for them. No doubt saw them as easy pickings. It makes me so angry as an adult.
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u/jkraige 8h ago
Yeah, like I'm not convinced this can even be subversive just because at the end of the day they're still veterans and signed up to serve American imperialism. Unless this is like Veterans for Peace where the idea is "I served and I realized it was actually a bad thing", which maybe it is more along those lines, but I'm not getting that context here
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u/interista4jz 2h ago
I come from a different marginalized community and it was either bet it all on sports or enlist. But I agree and wish alternatives to how I could lift myself out of the initial circumstances existed for me back then.
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u/yoga1313 6h ago
The OP is Apache and literally saying she’s not loving it at all. Do you know something OP doesn’t know? Where’s the disconnect?
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u/localbugdealer Find me at Whole Foods, bitch, I don't care 10h ago
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u/dramaqueen09 The horrors persist but so do the horny 10h ago
Badass women warriors ❤️
Ps love their regalia
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u/Valuable-Fan-3226 9h ago
I’ve always wonder why would any Native American would ever join the U.S. military.
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u/Wordsmith337 8h ago
The same reasons a lot of people do--job security, healthcare, food, housing, etc.
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u/pie-oh my aunt tifa 2h ago
The system is built to push people to join the military.
If food and housing scarcity were fixed, a lot of people wouldn't feel the need to enlist. That would mean the arms companies wouldn't make their bank.
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u/Valuable-Fan-3226 1h ago
That’s a very solid point. The U.S. uses the military instead fixed housing/food.
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u/luckyhubby77777 5h ago
I asked them directly, face to face, and their answer was that they view the American flag not as the flag of a country but as the flag of this ground we're standing on. They enlist to defend "America the Beautiful" not "The Land of the Free."
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u/Valuable-Fan-3226 1h ago
Nahhh. People always join for the benefits. Most military people don’t give shit about being a patriot.
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u/whisar09 Olivia & I dress for each other, capiche. 10h ago
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u/SarcasticBarbie96 ass out red bottoms dangling 9h ago
Could someone explain to me about General Custer? I’m not American and I know a bit about Indigenous American culture but I know much less about US history
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u/DrFranFine demonic Betty Boop 9h ago edited 5h ago
My understanding (please correct me and add to this if I’m wrong!) is that Custer was a general in the US-Dakota war who I think saw some Dakota women and followed them to try to kill them and the rest of the Dakota people, but ended up in like a valley surrounded by like the entire Dakota nation army. And the Dakota soldiers killed Custer and all his soldiers in a matter of a few minutes, with like none of the Dakota dying. Truly one of the most staggering and well-deserved defeats of the US military.
ETA: Thank you for the corrections and added context in the comments below!
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u/HGpennypacker 9h ago
The US government wanted to take control of the entire area of the Black Hills and sent troops to essentially round up any remaining camps of Native Americans. Custer led a group of a few hundred soldiers and found a camp of mostly Lakota, Custer wanted to wait another day to attack but he was afraid that he would lose the element of surprise and split his group. The camp actually was much, much bigger than Custer thought and he quickly found his men and himself surrounded. It’s debated if he was killed or committed suicide.
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u/CTeam19 8h ago
My understanding (please correct me and add to this if I’m wrong!)
Nailed the context within him out west. But it should be mentioned that part of the lore that helped him gain a national prominence and his cockiness to that leads to his downfall via his service during the American Civil War while fighting for the Union:
Named a General at 23 years old, the second youngest to get to that rank.
despite being outnumbered, the new General Custer defeated Confederate States Army cavalry of General J. E. B. Stuart's attack at East Cavalry Field on the crucial third day of the Gettysburg clash.
Custer's division blocked the Southern Army of Northern Virginia's final retreat from their fallen capital city of Richmond in early April 1865, and Custer received the first flag of truce from the exhausted Confederates.
He was present at the Army of Northern Virginia commanding General Robert E. Lee's surrender ceremony at the McLean House to Union Army General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House
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u/JooseTheGuice 9h ago
It was over the course of an afternoon, but as far as battles go it was not very long at all. They were dead within a few hours.
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u/the_pleiades 6h ago
Here’s a really cool discussion of a painting depicting the Battle of the Greasy Grass from the Lakota perspective: https://youtu.be/OtDT_WcIEgo
This battle is often known as “Custer’s Last Stand” or the “Battle of Little Bighorn” in US narratives.
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u/workster 9h ago
He was a hughly racist officer in the United States Army in that time period during American Civil War and later the American Indian Wars against the indigenous peoples. He committed at least one massacre. Later he ended up killed in what's called the Battle of the Little Bighorn or otherwise labelled Custer's Last Stand.
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u/Efficient-Search 9h ago
He graduated last in his class at West Point Military Academy, was court-martialed failure to obey orders, and was known for his arrogance and incompetence. He ignored advice and went into battle against Lakota and Cheyenne warriors and was severely outnumbered, leading to himself and his entire unit getting killed at the battle of the little bighorn in 1876. Only a horse named Comanche is considered to be a survivor of the battle on the US side. Custer is truly one of the worst military leaders in American history.
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u/bigsad-bear Pink…get doon 6h ago
Look up Lakota warrior Crazy Horse and the battle of Little Bighorn!
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u/CTeam19 8h ago
In case anyone runs into someone saying that they are being disrespectful to a military flag, this "Custer Flag" is a personal flag created by Custer's wife and has zero connection to the still running 7th Cavalry which was the unit that got wrecked at the battle.
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u/DoubleEarthDE 8h ago
I get the sentiment, but you’re literally fighting for the people who genocided you. It’s like going to McDonald’s but refusing to eat the fries cause they burned your mouth once.
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u/Accurate-Honey9564 9h ago
That's cool and all, but being indigenous and apart of the US Military is technically serving the same organization that committed numerous genocides against your ancestors. Not to mention, by serving in the US Military, you are still technically protecting the nation that continues to oppress indigenous peoples today. It would be like being Jewish and joining a Nazi Military unit. If they really want to show their dissatisfaction towards the colonization of the Americas, then they should look into leaving the US Military. Especially, because Trump is their boss.
EDIT: Missed the part where it said veterans, but my point still stands. I have many friends that are veterans and refuse to wear those disgusting Military uniforms today. Especially, after what this country forced them to do overseas.
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u/ChuckNorrisSleepOver The Tortured Juggalo's Department 6h ago
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u/No-Solid-4255 4h ago
It amazes me that there's a Custer street in Evanston, il. Which is on native land.
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u/squintpan 5h ago
I love this for them. I wish them peace. My brother’s a vet and that’s a heavy burden to carry. The military chews up and spits out poor and vulnerable kids.
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u/NoMathematician6460 10h ago
As they should.