Dancing in the snow

[riverwalker]

On this day, December 29, 1890 the massacre at Wounded Knee happened. Nearly 300 starving and freezing Lakota men, women and children were slaughtered by the 7th Cavalry. When some of the wounded women were taken to a local church, it was still adorned with Christmas decorations, and there is a photo of a victim lying on the floor of the church with "Peace on Earth" above her head. Personally, I had to understand America's past to understand the present. To me, the road to Fallujah passed right through South Dakota. The role of the press at the time, how such a powerful nation could feel so threatened by a group of destitute people and the Ghost Dance, the racism, the genocide. It is America's history and we still run from it.


Massacre At Wounded Knee, 1890
http://www.dickshovel.com/WKmasscre.html

The Wounded Knee Massacre - December 1890
www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm

Wounded Knee Introduction
www.bgsu.edu/departments/ acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKIntro.html

EyeWitness to History

www.ibiscom.com/knee.htm

Time & Again - Wounded Knee - Massacre of 1890
msnbc.com/onair/msnbc/ TimeandAgain/archive/wknee/1890.asp

Massacre at Wounded Knee Story and Index
www.dreamscape.com/morgana/wknee.htm