It was on this day in 1890 that federal troops killed almost 300 Lakota men, women, and children in the massacre at Wounded Knee. One of the survivors was Black Elk, the famous medicine man, who was 27 years old at the time of the massacre. He wrote: “… I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth, — you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation’s hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.”
Thank you for reminding us what courage looks like and how history repeats and repeats itself. And thank you for reminding us that if we live in America we live on blood-soaked soil.
Thank you for reminding us what courage looks like and how history repeats and repeats itself. And thank you for reminding us that if we live in America we live on blood-soaked soil.
Thanks for the great stories, enjoy reading TWA.