The Chris Hedges Report Show with author Nathaniel Philbrick on How George Armstrong Custer Became a Martyr Used to Justify Genocide and US Imperialism

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The Chris Hedges Report Show with author Nathaniel Philbrick on How George Armstrong Custer Became a Martyr Used to Justify Genocide and US Imperialism

Custer became in death a martyr to the American empire. He was in popular mythology the last to die in the battle, a symbol of martial valor, although there is scant evidence for this assertion.

Chris Hedges

Sep 16, 2022

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Painting by Frederick Remington of "Custer's Last Charge." George A. Custer, (1839-1876), made his last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn, July 25, 1876. Custer lost the battle. Undated illustration.

The playwright Eugene O’Neill said that one of the few events worth celebrating in American history took place on June 25, 1876, when Lakota, Northern …

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