Watching now: "A Good Day to Die"
Personal and historical. Lessons for today.
#ACTIVIST #ACTIVISTS
#NativeAmerican #AIM #BoardingSchools #WoundedKnee
I'm watching on Kanopy.com free via library card. Don't know IF EVERY Library offers.
trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1I6...
A Good Day to Die - Trailer
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Watching now: "A Good Day to Die"
Personal and historical. Lessons for today.
#ACTIVIST #ACTIVISTS
#NativeAmerican #AIM #BoardingSchools #WoundedKnee
I'm watching on Kanopy.com free via library card. Don't know IF EVERY Library offers.
trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1I6...
A Good Day to Die - Trailer -
I'm warning to Trump's mods at the #WhiteHouse.
Yes, tacky ugly showy. But a genius #RorschachTest. #MAGA fans cheer the tackiness. Centrists & liberals lament loss of "dignity".
Those 3 tribes of imperialists believe in the WH as core of a virtuous project.
Others can't unsee the brutality of empire. WH is the heart of a 250yo crime scene. From here, North America was genocided, then the empire reached globally.
Demolish. Make the ruins a memorial to #MyLai, #Hiroshima, #WoundedKnee, #Gaza.
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‘The cavalry’s coming!’: Indigenous activism from 1492 to Standing Rock
Famed Indigenous activists like Leonard Peltier and Madonna Thunder Hawk and younger activists shared their thoughts with ICT about the evolution of Indigenous activism from the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s to Standing Rock and beyond.
by Kevin Abourezk, May 11, 2026
#CannonballND – "The field is serene. The blades of brown grass, not yet awakened by spring rains, sway gently. In the distance, the #MissouriRiver cuts a blue streak across the unbroken plains. The silence is punctuated only by the sound of passing cars and the low hum of rushing water in nearby #CannonballRiver.
"But if you listen carefully, you can hear defiant voices shouting and then screaming.
"Ten years ago, this land exploded.
"For nearly a year, from April 2016 to February 2017, thousands of people stood strong against #MilitarizedPolice, #FederalTroops and #PrivateSecurityForces [#Blackwater] hired to protect the 1,176-mile #DakotaAccessPipeline. They gathered to resist a private corporation’s efforts to build a pipeline less than a mile from the #StandingRockSioux Reservation near the #NorthDakota-#SouthDakota border.
"In the end, they were forced to evacuate their camps as authorities quieted, but never fully extinguished, the uprising. Some would say the fire that ignited at #StandingRock was lit decades earlier by #NativeActivists who fought oppression and violence in the 1960s and 1970s.
"While Native people have resisted #colonization and its impacts since 1492, the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s marked a turning point in the efforts of Native people to join together and speak in one voice. That torch of resistance was carried all the way from places like #AlcatrazIsland and #WoundedKnee to a field near the Missouri River in 2016.
"The #NoDAPL movement reached its height on Nov. 20, 2016, when hundreds of water protectors gathered on a bridge to clear two burned-out trucks that impeded a public roadway that provided access to the pipeline drill site and to the camp. The confrontation was the most violent clash between water protectors and authorities during the protest and led to nearly 200 people being injured, some seriously."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/the-cavalrys-coming-indigenous-activism-from-1492-to-standing-rock/#USPol #NativeAmericanActivism #StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHistory #Resistance #IndigenousResistance #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝗲𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 -
This copy I read over 40 years ago now (dang), and it's overdue for a refresh; this was my first history reading that pushed hard against my Western-mythicized education. Even so, this white author was 20 years before Vizenor's concept of "survivance."
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #reading #history #nonfiction #deebrown #woundedknee
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"Revolution from the Heart of Nature," #Bioneers 2026. #RobertFree was on the Trail of Broken Treaties, the takeover of the BIA building in Washington, the Occupation of #WoundedKnee. “In the early days the #SierraClub and environmental organizations didn't want input from #Indigenous People in regards to national parks and monuments." Today, this is changing.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/04/indigenous-youths-reclaiming-waters-and.html#more
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February 27, 1973 - Hundreds of Oglala Lakota Sioux and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied the village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Angered over a long history of violated treaties, mistreatment, family dismemberment, cultural destruction, discrimination, and impoverishment through confiscation of resources, they particularly demanded the U.S. live up to the terms of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. That treaty recognized the Sioux as an independent nation in the western half of South Dakota. Additionally, there had been a recent campaign of harassment and violence by tribal and FBI officials. Wounded Knee was chosen because of the 1890 massacre there of several hundred men, women and children by U.S. troops. The occupation lasted until May.
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Passage Land: What Do the Living Owe the Dead?
Some questions cannot be answered. They can only be inhabited. For sixteen decades, three families have occupied the same stretch of Nebraska prairie, and for sixteen decades they have been asking variations of the same question: what do the living owe the dead? Passage Land is my attempt to inhabit that question long enough to understand why it refuses resolution.
The novel spans 1866 to 2026. The Vogels flee the collapsing Russian steppes, where the promises made to German settlers have curdled into conscription and confiscation. The Callahans escape Ireland’s famine legacy, carrying debts they can never repay and griefs they can never name. The Walking Aheads survive the massacre of their people, watching their children taken to schools designed to erase everything their ancestors knew. All three families end up on the same land. All three carry obligations to people who are no longer alive to receive payment.
I did not set out to write a 160-year saga. I set out to understand why the prairie holds its dead so close. Growing up in Nebraska, you learn early that the land remembers. The sod houses are gone but their foundations remain. The homestead claims are forgotten but the property lines persist. The treaties are broken but the people they displaced are still here, still farming, still remembering what was taken. The question that animates this novel is not historical. It is present tense: what happens when the people who inherit the land also inherit the debt?
The title comes from the Lakota concept of passage, the idea that we do not own land but move through it, that our tenure is temporary and our obligations extend beyond our lifespan. This stands in direct tension with the homesteading logic that brought both the Vogels and the Callahans to the prairie: the conviction that land can be possessed, improved, and passed down as property. The novel does not resolve this tension. It dramatizes it across six generations until the contradictions become unbearable.
Robert Vogel, in 2024, is the character who must finally confront what his family has avoided for over a century. He is sixty-three years old, a retired agricultural consultant, the last of the Vogel men still living on the original homestead. When Ruth Walking Ahead appears at his door with a proposition that could change everything, he must decide whether the debts of the dead can ever be settled, or whether some wounds are meant to stay open precisely because closing them would betray everyone involved.
The research for this book took years. Prairie Voice readers will recognize some of the historical threads: the Volga German migration, the Irish chain migration, the allotment era that broke reservation lands into individual parcels that could be sold, lost, or stolen. The novel weaves these threads together not to create a comprehensive history but to show how historical forces become family stories, how policy becomes inheritance, how what happened to someone’s great-grandmother in 1887 shapes what someone’s grandson decides in 2024.
I wrote this book because forgetting is too easy. The prairie encourages forgetting. The grass grows back. The graves sink into the soil. The names on the headstones become unreadable. But the obligations do not disappear just because we stop acknowledging them. They pass down through generations, accumulating interest, waiting for someone brave enough or foolish enough to finally open the ledger.
Ruth’s statement to Robert near the end of the novel captures what I hope readers will take away: “Sharing is not return.” There is no reconciliation that undoes what was done. There is no payment that settles the account. There is only the choice to acknowledge the debt or to pretend it does not exist. The novel asks which choice is more honest, and whether honesty is even the right criterion when the people owed are long dead and the people paying never agreed to the terms.
Passage Land is available now as a Kindle edition for $9.99 and paperback for $17.99 at Amazon. A free PDF is also available at David Boles Books for those who prefer that format.
This is not a comfortable book. It is not meant to be. But if you have ever stood on land that holds more history than the deed acknowledges, if you have ever wondered what your family’s presence cost someone else’s family, if you have ever suspected that the past is not past but merely patient, then this book was written for you.
#bolesBooks #davidBoles #farmCrisis1980s #GreatPlainsHistoricalFiction #LakotaSiouxFiction #multigenerationalSaga #NativeAmericanFiction #nebraska #NebraskaNovel #novel #woundedKnee -
A U.S. flag flies upside-down outside a church occupied by members of the #American Indian Movement (AIM) on March 3, 1973, on the site of the 1890 massacre at #WoundedKnee, S.D.
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Family Wants Search for Activist’s Remains at Site of Wounded Knee Occupation
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December 29, 1890 - The U.S. Army killed approximately 300 Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee, in the new state of South Dakota. The 7th Cavalry (Custer's old command) fired their artillery amidst mostly unarmed women, children, and fleeing men. The Wounded Knee Massacre historically considered the final major military battle in the genocide against Native Americans. 20 soldiers received Congressional Medals of Honor for their "bravery.”
Encroaching white settlement after gold was found in 1874 on Sioux lands led to conflicts. The Great Sioux Agreement of 1889 established reservations for the native inhabitants and encouraged further white settlement on Indian land.
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Il massacro di #WoundedKnee del 29 dicembre 1890, sulle rive del torrente omonimo nel South Dakota, non fu una battaglia ma la brutale carneficina che segnò l’epilogo delle Guerre indiane e l’atto finale della sanguinosa conquista del Nord America. Ma ciò che rende Wounded Knee un simbolo della controversa memoria storica americana sono le onorificenze assegnate per tale atto: ben 24 soldati ricevettero infatti la Medaglia all’onore, la più alta onorificenza militare #USA. Con la campagna “Remove the Stain Act”, e la conseguente proposta di legge del 2019 depositata da deputati indigeni e democratici, i nativi americani chiedono da anni che queste medaglie vengano ritirate. L’amministrazione #Trump, però, non è dello stesso avviso e ha confermato quelle medaglie.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Could Wounded Knee have been prevented? She revisits Dec. 28, 1890, as Sitanka’s ill Lakota band surrendered peacefully while soldiers celebrated and armed troops closed in, turning fear into tragedy. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-28-2025 #WoundedKnee #IndigenousHistory Click for the full piece—clear, vital writing from Richardson.
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Western South Dakota Catholic leaders about the Wounded Knee medals:
“Those who died at Wounded Knee are sacred. Jesus stands with all who suffer and die at the hands of others."
“Those who committed the violence are also sacred...Jesus offers them mercy and healing. Yet the acts themselves were grave evils and cannot be honored.”
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https://www.europesays.com/2472330/ What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Buffalo Bill #AvrolLookingHourse #BuffaloBill #DebHaaland #DefenseDepartment #Død #JoeBiden #Lakota #LloydAustin #MedalsOfHonor #NativeAmericanHistory #pentagon #PeteHegseth #SecretaryOfDefense #SecretaryOfWar #SittingBull #SOUTHDAKOTA #U.S.Military #WoundedKnee
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Hegseth's decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities
https://zurl.co/TjSB1#northeastradiosd #southdakota #northeastradiosdnews
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Without a shadow of a doubt, Death to Amerikkka.
https://truthout.org/articles/with-wounded-knee-medals-trump-admin-suggests-theres-valor-in-genocide/
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https://www.europesays.com/de/464071/ Trump-Regierung feiert die Täter des Massakers von Wounded Knee #AktuelleNachrichten #AktuelleNews #Amerika #Auszeichnung #BigFoot #Ehre #Headlines #Hegseth #Indianer #indigene #Kriegsverbrechen #Lakota #Massaker #Medaille #Militär #Nachrichten #News #Schlagzeilen #Sioux #SittingBull #SpottedElk #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #ureinwohner #US #USA #Verbrechen #VereinigteStaaten #VereinigteStaatenVonAmerika #WoundedKnee
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#WoundedKnee #Indigenous #FistNations #Genocide #Massacre #MedalofHonor #Hegseth #Cruelty #alt
Via theserfstv.bsky.social:
US soldiers opened fire on a group of mostly unarmed women children and elders in the Wounded Knee Massacre slaughtering over 300 Lakota civilians. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them.
Only a nazi regime would want to honor
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"Hegseth: “Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of #WoundedKnee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.”
The Atlantic's James Surowiecki: “We gave 10 Medals of Honor to US troops who landed in Normandy and fought the Germans on D-Day. We gave 20 Medals of Honor - twice as many - to US cavalrymen who killed hundreds of Lakota, most of them women and children, at Wounded Knee. That’s absurd and embarrassing.”
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-215-92725
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#Hegseth, #WoundedKnee, and #Tariffs by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-26-2025
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"Why defend Medals for Wounded Knee massacre?" Heather Cox Richardson exposes Defense Secretary Hegseth’s choice to uphold 20 controversial honors amid long calls for justice. The 1890 tragedy unfolded through political greed, mishandling, and Lakota suffering. This decision echoes a troubling cycle of ignoring accountability for political expediency. Read the full analysis here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-26-2025 #WoundedKnee #HistoricalJustice #MilitaryHonors #HeatherCoxRichardson
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“Many of those killed were women and children trying to flee the onslaught of bullets from soldiers who had surrounded the camp”, https://19thnews.org/2025/09/wounded-knee-soldiers-medals-of-honor-hegseth/
“we’re making it clear that they deserve those medals […], we honor their service”, Pete Hegseth
Yeah, this is what you can expect from the ministry formerly known as defense
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Trash.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115268389298095536
[email protected] - Defense Secy #PeteHegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of *Honor* for their actions in 1890 at #WoundedKnee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday evening.#WoundedKneeMassacre #NativeAmerican #Lakota #Sioux #SouthDakota #PineRidge #massacre #USArmy #WhiteSupremacy #genocide #EthnicCleansing
https://apnews.com/article/wounded-knee-hegseth-soldiers-medal-of-honor-0310c47952ad7aeabb176f94d8af4d52
