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liberalhistorian

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17. I live on an SD reservation and have visited the Wounded
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 01:32 AM
Dec 2011

Knee site, memorial/burial ground several times; it never fails to be powerfully moving and saddening. The city of Wall, SD, even has a WK museum, which is really interesting, although many of the pictures are quite graphic and need to be seen on a strong stomach.

It was a long time before the word "battle" was finally replaced with "massacre", which is what it was. Three hundred unarmed old people, women and children shot in the back and sides as they were desperately fleeing American "soldiers" shooting at them is NOT a "battle". Yet too many South Dakotans continue to think the Lakota are "whiners" for continuing to "harp on old history." One Lakota asked someone who said that in his presence, "so, would you say that about Civil War reenactments that still go on?" Total silence, lol.

What is particularly infuriating is that the "soldiers" who murdered the hundreds of unarmed Lakota elderly, women and children were awarded Congressional Medals of Honor for "heroic service" (gag, choke, vomit) and, to this day, those medals have never been rescinded despite decades of campaigning to get Congress to do just that. At the latest vote several years ago, John Fucking McCain voted no and tried to explain it to his Indian constituents in AZ (he was on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee at the time) by claiming that the soldiers were "doing their duty as they understood it at the time" and showed "bravery in doing so", despite its wrongness. Blech. Some day those damned medals will be rescinded. They must be, if we are to be an honorable nation.

December 29, 1890 [View all] riverwalker Dec 2011 OP
thanks for a video on inconvenient history nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #1
kick ensho Dec 2011 #4
Horrible. UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2011 #2
K & R ellisonz Dec 2011 #3
It IS a shame that... MarianJack Dec 2011 #5
Aloha. n/t ellisonz Dec 2011 #7
Aloha from Maine to Hawaii! MarianJack Dec 2011 #12
We have more in common than you may imagine... ellisonz Dec 2011 #13
WOW! MarianJack Dec 2011 #22
for all the Ghost Dancers around the world riverwalker Dec 2011 #6
Automatic DU Rec for pointing out the anniversary of a very important event in history slackmaster Dec 2011 #8
Second that motion, for those who missed this yesterday...nt Stuart G Dec 2011 #24
thank you for dana_b Dec 2011 #9
K&R hifiguy Dec 2011 #10
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Dec 2011 #11
K&R....n/t unkachuck Dec 2011 #14
Thank you for honoring... Spazito Dec 2011 #15
K, R, and thanks for posting. senseandsensibility Dec 2011 #16
I live on an SD reservation and have visited the Wounded liberalhistorian Dec 2011 #17
Interesting. JNelson6563 Dec 2011 #19
Yeah, that little fact isn't well-known, liberalhistorian Dec 2011 #20
k/r fishwax Dec 2011 #18
K&R Warren DeMontague Dec 2011 #21
K and R...for those that want an incredible read... "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" Stuart G Dec 2011 #23
K'd & R'd DeathToTheOil Dec 2011 #25
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