Documentary about the 71 day standoff at Wounded Knee

Didn't watch the video, it is too early in the day to get all pissed off. I know what side I would be on. As far as I am concerned, true freedom in this country died at wounded knee.

Thanks for the heads up on this doc. I well remember when this was going down. Soon as I have the time to eyeball this I will do so.

I've started watching it...it really is very good. Thank you for sharing it.

Thanks for the Video it as very informative, as I am a small part Indian it has always been of interest to me about some of the things that went on, I watched a show on the Trail of Tears once and cried.

How many times has our government made treaties with our ancestors then broke them is just awful, our government was the ones taking their lands and killing them.

I didn't know they had sent so many off to boarding schools, the things they tried to teach them and the way they did is just so unbelievable, even when they seemed to be trying to teach and help them, they were still made to feel like mere dogs and that they and their way of life as they had known and their ancestors were of no value.

If you can only imagine the town you live in and the government all of a sudden coming in and saying hey we want this town and all it's contents, we will give you 200 thousand per house and business, some take the money but some don't want to sell regardless of how much, so the government starts to forcefully take your property, killing your neighbors and children, then decide hey we can just give them $100 per house, and let a few live on the outskirts of town, then a few years down the road they decide they want that too so they relocate you a few hundred miles west, then a few years later they decide they want that too. How many people would not fight for the right to keep their property and not want to give it up?.

I think the part that brought me to my knees was "The Trail of Tears"

As my family watched, tears of our own came falling down. These were the tears of so many that suffered needlessly under the most extreme conditions that man has ever imposed.

To have that much honor and will to survive in a blood line of the purest of Americans, I am humbled.

As it wasn't Lewis and Clark I should have been learning about and looked up to in the history books... it is these and many others like them that I look up to that have given me strength when times seem bleak.

We can't deny what the white man has done...just as we cannot deny the Holocaust... but we can start by healing, not only the physical damage but the environmental damage as well.

Peace

There is another film called "Incident at Ogalla" concerning Leonard Peltier, a good, account of known facts, interviews with participants, etc.

I tried to go to Wounded Knee when this happened, but being barely sixteen, I was stopped legally. My argument ("But Mom, these are your people") wasn't strong enough to overcome her fears of me getting shot.

I finally made it there 20 years later. It was very quiet, peaceful, had some small ceremonies with a man named Richard who invited me to join the WKSA. I declined. as I felt I didn't really qualify to be a member, but I'm with them spiritually.

Looking forward to seeing this new documentary.

The conquering of the Native Americans makes me ashamed to be white. I spent my youth on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana.

It took me years to be able to watch any show that depicted the degradation of Native Americans without getting mad at the whiteman.

If anybody is interested there is a series produced by Kevin Costner called "500 nations" that is extremely good and very enlightening.