1890 and 1973: Do We Really Know What Happened At Wounded Knee?
Category: POLITICS
My three children are Oglala Lakota. They grew up here on the Pine Ridge Reservation. If they hadn't, maybe they wouldn't have known about the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. That's because Wounded Knee, the most famous catastrophe in Native history, is rarely taught in U.S. schools.
By Mark Tilsen, ContributorPresident and Co-founder of Native American Natural Foods, tan..., 2014-11-07