December 29, 1890

[riverwalker]

This day, 121 years ago.
Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.


A civilian burial party and U.S. soldiers pose over a mass grave trench with bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux killed at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. thanks for a video on inconvenient history

most Americans really do not want to be bothered with.

GENOCIDE...

that is the word that applies.

[ensho]

4. kick

nt

[UnrepentantLiberal]

2. Horrible.

Every bit as bad as the Nazis.

[ellisonz]

3. K & R

And at the risk of being dragged into the mud, I'd just like to say President Obama has made clear that he understands this past and is working hard to move life for Native Americans forward for the better. Imua

[MarianJack]

5. It IS a shame that...

...you may be dragged in the mud for speaking positively about President Obama on THIS web site.

It won't be by me, though.

PEACE

[ellisonz]

7. Aloha. n/t

[MarianJack]

12. Aloha from Maine to Hawaii!

We are about as far away from each other as 2 people can be and still both be in the US.

BTW, great picture of the President & the Vets.

PEACE!

[ellisonz]

13. We have more in common than you may imagine...

http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Maine-Hawaii-Interpretative-Nineteenth/dp/0739127187/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325214382&sr=8-1

I think they all very much enjoyed that moment.

Happy Holidays!

[MarianJack]

22. WOW!

I had no idea. I was simply talking geography.

Thank you for sharing and Happy Holidays to you, too!

PEACE!

[riverwalker]

6. for all the Ghost Dancers around the world

in
America
Tunesia
Egypt
Libya
Syria
now
China
Russia

"The Indian Bureau feared the swelling numbers of Ghost Dancers and believed that the ritual was a precursor to renewed Indian militancy and violent rebellion."

dance...dance...

[slackmaster]

8. Automatic DU Rec for pointing out the anniversary of a very important event in history

[Stuart G]

24. Second that motion, for those who missed this yesterday...nt

[dana_b]

9. thank you for

this remembrance. A horrific day in our history.

[hifiguy]

10. K&R

One of the more horrible days in US History.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, riverwalker.

[unkachuck]

14. K&R....n/t

[Spazito]

15. Thank you for honoring...

this anniversary, it is important to never forget.

Recommended.

[senseandsensibility]

16. K, R, and thanks for posting.

It is difficult to remember this, but most worthwhile things are difficult. I hope we have learned something from this tragedy, and will continue to learn from it.

[liberalhistorian]

17. I live on an SD reservation and have visited the Wounded

Knee site, memorial/burial ground several times; it never fails to be powerfully moving and saddening. The city of Wall, SD, even has a WK museum, which is really interesting, although many of the pictures are quite graphic and need to be seen on a strong stomach.

It was a long time before the word "battle" was finally replaced with "massacre", which is what it was. Three hundred unarmed old people, women and children shot in the back and sides as they were desperately fleeing American "soldiers" shooting at them is NOT a "battle". Yet too many South Dakotans continue to think the Lakota are "whiners" for continuing to "harp on old history." One Lakota asked someone who said that in his presence, "so, would you say that about Civil War reenactments that still go on?" Total silence, lol.

What is particularly infuriating is that the "soldiers" who murdered the hundreds of unarmed Lakota elderly, women and children were awarded Congressional Medals of Honor for "heroic service" (gag, choke, vomit) and, to this day, those medals have never been rescinded despite decades of campaigning to get Congress to do just that. At the latest vote several years ago, John Fucking McCain voted no and tried to explain it to his Indian constituents in AZ (he was on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee at the time) by claiming that the soldiers were "doing their duty as they understood it at the time" and showed "bravery in doing so", despite its wrongness. Blech. Some day those damned medals will be rescinded. They must be, if we are to be an honorable nation.

[JNelson6563]

19. Interesting.

Thanks for adding that to the discussion, I didn't know about it.

Julie

[liberalhistorian]

20. Yeah, that little fact isn't well-known,

like a lot of Indian history. I wish more Americans knew about it, then maybe there'd be some real pressure to rescind the damn medals and some actual progress would be made.

[fishwax]

18. k/r

[Warren DeMontague]

21. K&R

Thanks for the reminder.

[Stuart G]

23. K and R...for those that want an incredible read... "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"

Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

New York
Holt Reinhart Winston
Publication date

1970

Media type

Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages

487
ISBN

0030853222
OCLC Number

110210
Dewey Decimal

970.5
LC Classification

E81 .B75 1971


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The truth is I couldn't finish reading it..
.I got to the events at "Sand Creek" and couldn't take any more..
I should add this, I am embarrassed too....but it was 25 years ago....

I assigned this to students to read, (in a high school) and put together a list ot 50 questions on the first 300 pages..up to Sand Creek, then
I faild to list more questions from the last part of the book..Oh well, at least I assigned the book..

[DeathToTheOil]

25. K'd & R'd

Sadly.