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Mass killing by any Government be it the United States, Nazi Germany or the former Soviet Union (just to name a few) should never be condoned nor forgotten. I don't care if it was two years ago or 213 years.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-army-massacres-indians-at-wounded-knee
On this day in 1890, in the final chapter of America's long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
Throughout 1890, the U.S. government worried about the increasing influence at Pine Ridge of the Ghost Dance spiritual movement, which taught that Indians had been defeated and confined to reservations because they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs. Many Sioux believed that if they practiced the Ghost Dance and rejected the ways of the white man, the gods would create the world anew and destroy all non-believers, including non-Indians. On December 15, 1890, reservation police tried to arrest Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux chief, who they mistakenly believed was a Ghost Dancer, and killed him in the process, increasing the tensions at Pine Ridge.
On December 29, the U.S. Army's 7th cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under the Sioux Chief Big Foot near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons. As that was happening, a fight broke out between an Indian and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired, although it's unclear from which side. A brutal massacre followed, in which it's estimated almost 150 Indians were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children. The cavalry lost 25 men.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)in our hearts and minds for ALL people who have died in vain. Enough of the hate and senseless slaughters. It's seems in today's America it's easier to be trained to kill but very hard to be trained to have some love and empathy.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)those who have a personal story concerning the slaughter of their relatives would like to please share their stories in this thread or start a new one. I know it is hard to do so as it took me 47 years to tell the story of my family to outsiders. It might educate people like myself who have no idea as to what really happened.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)been busy with doctors appointments and such.