12/29/2025
📖Remembering the Massacre at Wounded Knee
On December 29th, 1890, the Seventh US cavalry arrested a group of Lakota and confined them to a camp near Wounded Knee Creek. The reason for the arrest was persecution of the spiritual practice know as the “Ghost Dance,” often misinterpreted by outsiders as a ‘war dance.’ This arrest led up the the massacre of the confined Lakota men, women and children the day after the arrest, December 30th.
Consider:
How can we extend curiosity and compassion to the traditions of others, rather than contempt and suspicion? Each one of us has the opportunity to try this new skill every day.
Image: Big Foot’s camp three weeks after the Wounded Knee massacre, with bodies of several Lakota Sioux people wrapped in blankets in the foreground and US soldiers in the background.
Source - Library of Congress, Public Domain Archive
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