#remember wounded knee

[phobic-human]

Occupation of Wounded Knee, 1973.

(Photo credit: Bettmann Archive)

[commonweal]

Patch worn by members of AIM circa.1973

[phobic-human]

Occupation of Wounded Knee, 1973.

(Photo credit: Bettmann Archive)

[phobic-human]

A member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in a trench between sandbags, during the Wounded Knee Occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, March 7, 1973.

(Photo credit: Bettmann Archive)

[phobic-human]

Occupation of Wounded Knee, 1973.

(Photo credit: Bettmann Archive)

[phobic-human]

Never forget the Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890. One of the most heinous atrocities ever committed on the soil of Turtle Island. Over 300 women, children and men, including Cheif Uŋpȟáŋ Glešká or " Big Foot", were annihilated in the deadliest mass shooting in "u.s." history.

"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And 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.

— Heȟáka Sápa " Black Elk" (1863–1950), medicine man, Oglala Lakota

[therebelwrites]

WOUNDED KNEE

Is why media reports that the Vegas shooting was the “deadliest in U.S. history” are FALSE.

(Unless, of course, you mean to say that the massacre of hundreds--U.S. officials only put the number around 150, but Natives tell a different story!--of Native Americans in 1890 does NOT count as United States history?)

...OR that Native Americans are NOT “Americans”???

[landonsheely]

Remember Wounded Knee