S. C. Gwynne is an American nonfiction writer. He is the author of the prize-winning “Empire of the Summer Moon” and his latest book “Hymns of the Republic” is now available.
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Again, this is the best historical video on native Americans!
This interview is the best. Keep up the great videos!
I read this book long before the podcast and was excited to see Mr. Gwynne on – was awesome to hear him expand on things that were touched on in the book. This is the first JRE podcast that I've listened to more than once (and I listen to all of them when they come out).
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Okay, so I guess some clarification is needed…. What your guest is describing here is Dragoons, not Cavalry. Cavalry is melee horsemen armed with sabers and lances, horsemen armed with muskets and rifled muskets where infantry that road into battle then dismounted and fought on foot. It's the Dragoon Doctrine. Now some Dragoon forces where trained to use sabers and lances and served as a ad hoc Cavalry regiment but they where still Infantry a thus would fight on foot where ever possible. The U.S. 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. Custer comes to mind, they where technically Dragoons. Every battle from the Washita to Little Bighorn they used the Dragoon Doctrine of dismounting and fighting on foot.
Edit: Cavalry fought with melee weapons, sabers and lances, from horseback, that's the Cavalry Doctrine.
"There's reservations all over the place, not in Oklahoma"
The reason for that is all the tribes living on reservation lands in Eastern Oklahoma, called Indian Territory, on November 7, 1905 held a convention called the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention where the Tribes voted to join the Union as a state by an 86.11% landslide vote, part of this included dissolving the reservations. The proposal was rejected by the feds, but it set the ground work for the Oklahoma convention in 1907 which was more successful. Ultimately, both Oklahoma and Indian Territories had to unify to form a single state. The end result was that the reservations where dissolved, which is a good thing. The Tribes living in Oklahoma are better off then Tribes living on the reservations. At lest they used to be. That all might change with that supreme court ruling that happened not to long ago which undermines outcomes of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention and the Oklahoma Convention.