The massacre at Wounded Knee happened on December 29, 1890.
Yes. Wounded Knee was horrible. I have Cherokee blood
from grandmothers from both of my parents going back
five generations. If you look at the earliest Indian
government rolls, you will see Indian names. If you look
at the last government roll taken, you will see white men's
names. - Having said this, the Indians should have stuck
together instead of fighting so horribly and violently
among themselves. The white man could never have broken
them if united. Also, Indians did some atrocious acts
against white men and women. - I see my Indian
grandmothers looking at the situation with their young
men dying of white man's diseases and sensed the white man
had immunity. They looked at all people as people, and
they wanted their children to inherit immunity and survive.
I might not be here if my Indian grandmothers hadn't
married white men. Too many people tend to equate white
with bad and anything Indian as good, and it just isn't
that clear cut.
Ok, I need to refresh myself on Western US History.
The next thing that comes to mind then is this, if Wounded Knee was evil, what was Custer's Last Stand?
I do realize that the US Army was on a mission, but what happened to Custer was nothing less than a slaughter of men.
LVM
I've driven through the village(?) that is still there today: sad, so depressed - economically and emontionally.
Lovely ranchland (Near Badlands) but lots of JUNK everywhere.
I'm just amazed that we have SO many patriotic NA's at ALL, after the way Unca Sam has screwed them over for so long!
The massacre at New Orleans happened on January 8, 1815.