We lose important anniversaries in the holidays between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day, especially in that school-less period from a few days before Christmas to a few days after New Year’s Day.
Today is the anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890.
I don’t have an appropriate post ready — I just matched the date up last night. I hoped someone would have a good memorial up today. But I haven’t seen one, yet.
How can we remember, if we forget even to note the date?
Jennifer Allen (partially obscured) Rabi Mohtar, Liz Hilkert and Gale Ruttanaphon tour Wounded Knee Cemetery, about 15 minutes away from the village. (Matt Beyrouty photo)
Sources:
- Museum at Wounded Knee (films and on-line presentations)
- Short account of the massacre at EyewitnessToHistory.com; short account at USHistory.org
- “We Shall Remain,” PBS series on Native American history, Episode 5: “Wounded Knee”
- General account at Wikipedia
- Photo of the cemetery from photographer Crabshack
- History at dreamscape.org
- Photographs and paintings of the Ghost Dance, from Indiana University
Wounded Knee, by Keith Beasley:
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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