Talk:Battle of the Badlands

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The tone and some of the text of this article consistently casts the whites as bad guys, and the Indians as good guys. It also has a number of figures, particularly of combatants, which are unsourced, and which also contradict figures cited in the article "Battle of Kildeer Mountain.

This needs to be properly written, ie, following NPV guidelines.Theonemacduff (talk) 03:54, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article was written in a weird way, i agree. It was the american military that was carrying out these operations and the article frequently just refers to them as whites. Also it refers to Indian solders and I am just not sure that is accurate, they were warriors perhaps but not solders, semantics I guess... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.69.68.151 (talk) 17:44, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article refers to the White Earth Reservation which is false, that is a Chippawa Reservation. The Indians were being pursued as they were Sioux committing Raids in Southern and Western Minnestota killing settlers. The Chippawa and Sioux were enemies. The Chippawa as well as some Other tribes and bands were not involved in the uprising in 1962. The Sioux uprising in Southern Minnesota killed hundreds of settlers. Many of the warriors escaped to the Dakotas after their defeat at Wood Lake. Then continued to attack as renegades. The second expedition under General Sully engaged in several battles in pursuing the Hostile Souix. It was not an invasion. Although part of the mission was to protect miners traveling to Idaho. Also the weapons used by the soldiers at the time were single shot rifles . It is unlikely that they had repeating rifles. Gatling guns had been invented but not adopted by the U.S. Army until after the Civil war. The soldiers did have longer range rifles than the Indians, who were most likely armed with muskets and shotguns. It is uncertain how much of the article is factual as it contains several obvious errors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2nah (talk • contribs) 03:35, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]