Friday, November 22, 2013

Massacre at Wounded Knee

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US Attorney General Eric Holder laying a wreath at the site of the Wounded Knee Memorial. Photo taken September 26, 2009. November ...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Wounded Knee Massacre: More on The Ghost Dance (Natdia)

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Ghost Dance Painting. Image courtesy of Legends of America. The importance of The Ghost Dance in the history of the Native American ...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

Wounded Knee: The Measuring Woman Attempts to Avert Disaster

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Alice Fletcher meets with Chief Joseph at the Nez Perce Lapwai Reservation in Idaho, 1889. The man on one knee is James Stewart, her int...
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Friday, October 4, 2013

Wounded Knee: Wovoka and the Ghost Dance

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Wovoka , (1856-1932), who was also known as Jack Wilson. Wovoka was the Northern Paiute religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance mov...
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"Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" and Stephen Vincent Benet

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  ' Most of the victims of the Wounded Knee Massacre were buried in a mass grave.  The Wounded Knee Massacre is a painful sub...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Black Elk on Wounded Knee

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Black Elk "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 th...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Vigilante Justice in the American Old West

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This is actually a boat rope and the photo was taken at the Port Aransas Ferry in Port Aransas, Texas, but you get the general idea, I...
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