home.social

#woundedknee — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #woundedknee, aggregated by home.social.

fetched live
  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. ‘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:
    ictnews.org/news/the-cavalrys-

    #USPol #NativeAmericanActivism #StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHistory #Resistance #IndigenousResistance #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism

  4. 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

  5. "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.

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/04

    #FirstNations #Photography

  6. 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.

    #WoundedKnee

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

    #WoundedKnee

  9. 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.”

    #WoundedKnee #Massacre #Medals

    southdakotasearchlight.com/202

  10. #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

  11. "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.”

    meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli

  12. “Many of those killed were women and children trying to flee the onslaught of bullets from soldiers who had surrounded the camp”, 19thnews.org/2025/09/wounded-k

    “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

    #Hegseth #woundedknee #woundedkneemassacre