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Wounded Knee Massacre ~ December 29, 1890
“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 the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream . . . . the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.” - Black Elk Speaks, 1932.
In nine days it will be the 120th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre which occurred on the morning of December 29th, 1890 at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
On that day the 7th Cavalry Regiment of U.S. troops went to the camp at Wounded Knee Creek to disarm and relocate the Lakota Sioux, but when a deaf tribesman by the name of Black Coyote refused to give up his gun he was overpowered by the soldiers and a shot was accidently fired. The result of this altercation caused the U.S. soldiers to fire indiscriminately into the crowd killing over 150 Sioux men, woman, children and even their own troops. After the massacre the military then hired civilians to bury the dead and later mortally wounded in a large mass grave on a hill overlooking where the gunfire first broke out. The Wounded Knee Massacre is still to this day known as one of the darkest days in American History.
In honor of the lives lost that day I have made this wallpaper… it’s not much, I know, but as long as the memory of this day lives on we can learn from it and teach others to never make these same horrific mistakes again.
Made in Photoshop CS3.
Texture used:
Photos of Wounded Knee Creek, map and Red Cloud searched online.
“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 the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream . . . . the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.” - Black Elk Speaks, 1932.
In nine days it will be the 120th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre which occurred on the morning of December 29th, 1890 at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
On that day the 7th Cavalry Regiment of U.S. troops went to the camp at Wounded Knee Creek to disarm and relocate the Lakota Sioux, but when a deaf tribesman by the name of Black Coyote refused to give up his gun he was overpowered by the soldiers and a shot was accidently fired. The result of this altercation caused the U.S. soldiers to fire indiscriminately into the crowd killing over 150 Sioux men, woman, children and even their own troops. After the massacre the military then hired civilians to bury the dead and later mortally wounded in a large mass grave on a hill overlooking where the gunfire first broke out. The Wounded Knee Massacre is still to this day known as one of the darkest days in American History.
In honor of the lives lost that day I have made this wallpaper… it’s not much, I know, but as long as the memory of this day lives on we can learn from it and teach others to never make these same horrific mistakes again.
Made in Photoshop CS3.
Texture used:
Photos of Wounded Knee Creek, map and Red Cloud searched online.
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I was looking for a photo to accompany a haiku I wrote. This image stopped me in my tracks. It was perfect and left no interpretation to the imagination. The image speaks volumes about that bloody day in history. Beautiful composition.