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1891: A Heart-Rending Account of the Massacre at #WoundedKnee
By International Herald Tribune February 12, 2016
"On Dec. 29, 1890, American soldiers killed men, women and children on the #PineRidgeReservation in #SouthDakota. Two #Sioux leaders, #TurningHawk and #AmericanHorse, spoke of the massacre’s horrors at a conference in Washington D.C. in 1891. Below is an excerpt from their account that appeared in the European edition of The New York Herald:
"A most pathetic story was told at the Sioux Indian Conference yesterday [Feb. 11], by Turning Hawk and American Horse. According to them, many Indian men, women and children were mercilessly slaughtered in the so-called fight at Wounded Knee.
"Soon after the firing began, they said, the soldiers turned their guns upon #women in the lodges, standing there under a flag of #truce, the result being a general stampede, the men fleeing in one direction and the women in two different directions. As they fled with babes on their backs, several women and #children were shot right through, some falling near the flag of truce, and others being despatched as they ran through the circular village.
"One woman was shot down with her infant as her arms almost touched the flag, and a sad sight then was seen, the mother dead and the innocent child still suckling.
"But worse was yet to come, for after this inhuman #massacre the cry was raised that all not killed or wounded should come forth and would be safe. Little boys and girls not wounded came out of places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded and butchered them."
#Genocide #USHistory #NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee #IndianWars #USArmy
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CW: CW - Graphic descriptions of #NativeAmerican genocide - #WoundedKneeMassacre
Stories from #WoundedKnee told 133 years later
by Amelia Schafer Dec 21, 2023
"As gunfire broke out, the nine-year-old boy began to run. Temperatures were below freezing. All he had were the clothes on his back and a knife as he ran through the open hills of the Pine Ridge Reservation.
"#FrankSitsPoor, part of Chief #SpottedElk’s (nicknamed Big Foot by the military) band of #Mniconju #Lakota, was out of his element. His family had traveled south seeking safety in the Badlands. Instead, the United States military moved the band to a small creek in the southern part of the #PineRidgeReservation, Wounded Knee Creek, awaiting further relocation.
"The boy ran over bodies of dead relatives, babies and mothers, and didn’t stop running until night came. One of the bodies he ran past was a mother with a baby in a cradleboard. A hand reached up, but he didn’t know what to do...."
#Resistance #Genocide #CivilDisobedience #NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee
#Genocide #IndianWars #GhostDance