[SAMWolf]

Picture "Seeing with the Heart" by Fish Hawk

  
  AMERICAN HOLOCAUST      Dec.29  1890
  
  
 colder than winter are the hearts of men
 oh, my people, frozen to the bloody snow
 revenge of the 7th for Custer's pride
 Big Foot my chief, my women, my children
 laying in their frozen tears
 never again to laugh or to sing around fires
 the GHOST DANCE could not save you
 from the powers of the Hotchkiss nor
 the hatred of a vengeful foe
 for evermore we shall not forget the blood
 that ran in a lonely creek called
                          Wounded Knee.

--- Freeper Fish Hawk

[SAMWolf]

'The present seems to me of imperative importance and justice, namely, to atone in part for the cruel and unjustifiable massacre of Indian men, and innocent women and children at Wounded Knee on the Red Cloud Reservation.'
Later in the letter he stated,
'I earnestly request that these measures be urged upon the action of the Congress.'

-- General Nelson A. Miles
(who was in command of the 500 soldiers that massacred the POWs)

Instead of an apology to the Sioux, the U.S. Government:

1. Awarded 20 Congressional Medals of Honor to those soldiers that participated in this wholesale slaughter.
   
   
2. Erected a monument to the few soldiers that died at Wounded Knee at Ft. Riley, Kansas. Attached a battle streamer to flags on display in the White House, Pentagon, West Point and Army bases through out the world.

Incredibly, the Wounded Knee Massacre is listed in the Army record as the "Battle of Wounded Knee." And, it is a further travesty to have the 29 names of American Indians that have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to be listed on the same roll with the 20 heroes of Wounded Knee.

The United State Congress passed Concurrent Resolution #153 in October, 1990 to recognize Wounded Knee as a massacre and issued a statement of deep regret.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

To this day, one of the most heart-rending books I have ever read is "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."

The stories on those pages will stay with me forever.