In the spring of 1843, if there was one last land in North America that had not been completely conquered by the Americans, it was the Sioux League in the northwest.

Sioux is actually a generic name. The name comes from the disdainful name given to him by his rival tribe, the Anishinabi, which means 'a little snake'.

Somewhat similar to the title 'Xiongnu' and 'Turkic', it was originally a slurious name, but over time, this title began to become widely known, and gradually became an orthodox ethnic name.

To this day, there are still people who are only proud of the names of 'Huns' and 'Turks', and can only say that the power of culture cannot be seen or touched, but it is more vicious than a quenched knife.

It's just that the Anishinabi people, who were originally given the name 'Sioux', have been annihilated in the long river of history early. They were once powerful, but unfortunately they lived in northeastern America, in what is now Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the Great Lakes.

With the end of the Second American Revolutionary War in 1812, the Anishnabys, a once powerful race, were completely driven out of the United States and fled northward in a hurry, and have since been displaced in the ice and snow of Canada.

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Two hundred years later, only occasionally one or two mixed-race Indians would claim to belong to this race.

- And the life of the Sioux has never been good.

At first, they were oppressed by the Anishinabis, and the small tribes had to huddle together to keep warm, fighting the Anishinabi while leaving their homeland and migrating westward.

At that time, the white people had not yet arrived on the Great Plains, and the vast western part of North America was a savannah infested with bison.

The Sioux tribe that migrated westward gradually developed into a Sioux Grand Alliance led by the "Seven-Colored Flame Council". It was a confederation of many tribes, with the seven largest clans forming councils that together decided the major matters of the alliance.

The seven-colored flame represents the seven alliances. As for the other small tribes, they gradually became dependent on these seven tribes.

The Council of Seven Flames meets every summer to elect four Grand Elders who will preside over the day-to-day affairs of the Alliance.

Compared to earlier times, for the loose Iroquois League in the northeastern Americas, the Council of the Seven Flames had much greater control over the tribe and more centralized power.

It was a transitional product of a period of transition from tribal slavery to feudal slavery.

This system was not necessarily the most advanced at the time.

However, it is a good solution to the situation that there are many tribes on the Great Plains and they attack each other. Under the centralized leadership of the Council of Seven Colored Flames, there was a brief period of development on the Great Plains.

So soon, the Sioux alliance was greatly expanded.

By the end of the 18th century, when Spain's Mexican Viceroyalty began to crumble, a group of tax evasion profiteers were caught smuggling tea in Boston.

At that time, the United States only had the territory of Virginia, Philadelphia and other thirteen eastern states, and the vast west belonged to the Indians!

- The Great Plains, which stretches for two thousand kilometers from Lake Michigan in the east to Mount Brak in the west, is full of Sioux tents and herds.

The expansion of the Sioux left them with enemies on all sides, including Omaha, Navajo, Cheyenne, and Shawnee along the way...... Almost all of them are their enemies. But these loose tribes have no resistance at all in the face of the centralized system of the Seven-Colored Flame Council.

If history continues in this way, perhaps what we see on the North American continent today would be a unique civilization established by the Council of the Seven Flames that we have never seen before.

The news may be broadcast on the TV news: "Whoever met with the Great Chief of the Seven-Colored Flame Council in which tent, and the Sioux people who can sing and dance welcome the arrival of whoever and whoever, and the Great Chief said that the two sides of the strait are one family, and blood is thicker than water...... Building a Harmonious and Beautiful Pacific ......"

Well, there is no such 'if' in history.

Like the Sioux rivals, the Anishnabi themselves, the Sioux themselves did not escape the slaughter of the whites.

Americans can't tell which tribe belongs to which, and from the very beginning of their country, all Indians have been treated the same, and the killing is over!

Whites seldom pay attention to fairness, but in their attitude towards Indians, there is a rare fairness: all Indians, damn it without discrimination!

From the rise to the glory to the decline, the Sioux must have experienced many heart-wrenching stories, and there must have been many heroes who were once dominant.

But this history has been buried forever, as if it had never happened.

Perhaps the Sioux also invented sayings such as 'the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind' or 'the chestnut in the fire', but their civilization has been so completely annihilated that there is no story of their early days that has survived!

So by this time in the spring of 1843, the Sioux were already dying.

From a powerful centralized tribal alliance that spanned two thousand miles from east to west, it became a fragmented and fragmented alliance tribe.

East of the Missouri River, there were no Sioux people grazing horses anymore.

Even their holy mountain, Bulak Mountain, where the whites said they wanted to mine in the mountains, and built schools when they said they wanted to build schools, no tribe dared to openly ignore them.

In fact, the Seven-Colored Flame Council, which was once a hot one, has also existed in name only by this time.

If history had not changed, in another seven years, in 1850, after the last meeting of the Council of the Seven Flames, the Council was dissolved, and the Sioux League was completely dead.

The so-called Dakota War and the Wounded Knee Valley War in the future were just the last swan song of the Sioux people, an elegy before death.

The reason why the stories of these wars have survived is not because of how heroic the Sioux people who participated in the war, but because through these wars, the Americans were able to occupy the land of the Sioux people in the name of the name.

On Mount Rushmore, directly opposite the statues of the four presidents of the United States, the statue of Crazy Horse, the last chief of the Sioux tribe, stood there, and he held a spear in his hand and glared at the four gentlemen of North America.

But Crazy Horse would never have imagined that the Americans had taken his land from him while he was alive, and that when he died, the Americans were still using his statue to proclaim the destiny of the white man.

- His statue is there not because of how great he is, but because the white people need him to be there.

"Look, the land is Indian, but Indian, it's American!" This is the value of the Sioux chief after his death.

Maybe what Lao Mei wants to tell the world is that, well, they have magnanimously forgiven Crazy Horse.

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Today, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, occupied by the turtledoves, is located on the mountainside of Mount Braque.

If history doesn't change, in the future, there will be four heads of American presidents erected on that huge granite rock in the distance.

One of them, it seems that he is still running a law firm?

This morning, after waking up from sleep, Ikaruga wore a suit that didn't fit so well from the headmaster's closet, and with a red wine glass in his hand, he greeted the bare stone through the window.

"Good morning, Mr. Abraham Lincoln!"

Ju Hard was taken aback, and he thought to himself: No, the turtledove has started to chatter like last night!

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