Remember the Massacre at Wounded Knee

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17. An American history and theatre arts teacher

A friend of ours staged and directed an elaborate outdoor reenactment of this a few decades ago. He posted about it on fb and lamented that these battles were "inevitable" because of the clash of cultures.

I replied:
It seems heartless to me to dismiss THIS as being "inevitable." Such is a fucking sad and hopeless commentary on the human psyche. But human greed is indeed so woefully pervasive. It shall be the epitaph and tombstone of homo sapiens.

From the article

"Black Elk, made famous in John Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, published in 1961, survived Wounded Knee:

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 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 . . . the nation’s hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.