Chief Black Elk: Wounded Knee Massacre - 1890  (*2 Personal Accounts)
Channel: Jaguar Bird
Date: 2018-09-06

ALL Peoples of the world should be treated with the same respect.Creator does.. and Creator sees everything.  No amount of money, social power, weaponry,  etc. will stop Great Spirit. The "truth" will eventually prevail. And more and more people will see it, for what it really is.. "Genocide".

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This is a combination of video clips, audio clips, photos and words about "The Wounded Knee Massacre" (also  often wrongly named as the "Battle of Wounded Knee") that occurred on December 29th 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek (Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.., in the U.S. state of South Dakota.  There are two different, but still very similar accounts of the massacre in this video, from Grandfather Black Elk.  There are also additional videos for Wounded Knee, The Sundance, Chief Crazy Horse, Chief Sitting Bull, Grandfather Black Elk.. and many others, in this channel.

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Grandfather Nicholas Black Elk witnessed the massacre of Chief Bigfoot’s band of Minneconjou Sioux, at Wounded Knee, in 1890. By then, he was in his twenties and knew much more about the world, having toured England and Europe, as a performer, in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. The horrors he saw at Wounded Knee, the torn bodies of men and women and children lying in heaps, the baby trying to nurse at the breast of its dead mother, the bullet wound he suffered himself,
also stayed with him. He describes it, in this 1932 writing: "The End of the Dream"- Black Elk (1932)
*(Words in video)

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On the morning of December 29, the U.S. Cavalry troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it. Simultaneously, an old man was performing a ritual called the Ghost Dance. Black Coyote's rifle went off at that point, and the U.S. army began shooting at the Native Americans. The disarmed Lakota warriors did their best to fight back. By the time the massacre was over, more than 250 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded (4 men and 47 women and children, some of whom died later)  Some estimates placed the number of dead far beyond 300. Twenty-five army soldiers also died, and 39 were wounded.... 6 of the wounded later died. At least twenty soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor, ..(for the murdering of mostly women and children).  In 2001, the National Congress of American Indians passed two resolutions condemning the military awards and called on the U.S. government to rescind them.

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