Posted on 07/11/2013 3:49:39 PM PDT by drewh
Johnny Depp has announced that he wants to buy Wounded Knee, a national historic landmark, and give it back to the Indian people. In an interview with the Mail On Sunday, the actor revealed that he is ready to spend millions in order to give the Native American people control of the land that was the site of a brutal 1890 massacre. ‘It’s very sacred ground and many atrocities were committed against the Sioux there,' he said in the interview.
'And in the 1970s there was a stand-off between the Feds (Federal government) and the people who should own that land. This historical land is so important to the Sioux culture and all I want to do is buy it and give it back. Why doesn’t the government do that?’
The area near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota is the site where the last major battle of the American Indian Wars took place.
The fight began when the American troops tried to disarm the Lakota Indians, and when one elderly tribesman refused to hand over his weapon the troops began to attack. The exact number of casualties differs in various reports, but there were thought to be at least 150 members of the Lakota tribe- including men, women and children- who were killed.
The massacre has caused outrage from historians as at least 20 American soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for their role in the bloodshed.
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*shrug* His money, his business.
Guess he feels guilty about the movie.
The costumer on the project spent a lot of time on the Big White Way?
Johnny should go look at the houses on the reservations. Did you see that video about the guy who rented out his home for Section 8 housing? Think of that on a grand scale.
“And this in no way is me trying to compensate for butchering what was a brave Indian warrior character.”
Peter Minuit, the Dutch leader in 1624 bought the Island of Manhattan for $24 (in trinkets and beads) from the American Indians in fear that they might attack the settlers there.
How about giving Manhattan back to the Indians, too, Johnny.
Not much in Hollywierd worth buying.
He was a Crow. They wore stuffed crows on their heads.
They were the only tribe brave enough to challenge a Nowipee tribesman in hand-to-hand combat,
due to their overpowering odor.
true, he’s probably trying to drum up publicity for his failing movie
Johnny should just move to Pine Ridge on the res for a year.
That would change his mind about the Oglalla Tribe forever.
95% unemployment, 90% alcoholism. BY CHOICE.
Yea, well, what’s he done for pirates lately?
They even drank Old Crow.
We had a wood products plant in Rapid City. We received a contract for 50 wood doors to deliver to the Pine Ridge Rez. Six months later, we got another government contract to deliver another 50 wood doors. All the doors in the prior order had totally been destroyed......kicked in, broken from the hinges, used for firewood. Total waste of our tax dollars, but good business for us. Sad.
I used to know a pimp who was part of the Slappaho tribe.
If it’s for sale, then more power to him.
I knew a Jewish Indian.
He was a Schmohawk.
Is the land up for sale, or can only he bid for it?
Weren’t the Sioux sometime cannibals? A lot of tribes were for one ceremonial reason or another.
Oh, well. Go Cleveland!
It's a rip-off of an old legend about an indian called "Crow-Head". Something to make Tonto "edgier", I guess.
Why? So they’ll have more land to do nothing with?
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