Born at Wounded Knee

DIGG THIS "What’s happening in my country is also happening in your country…. You don’t even know it, but you’re the Indians of the 21st Century, and that’s very sad." ~ Russell Means, Indian Activist and Facilitator of the newly created Independent Republic of Lakota Shortly before the U.S. Army slaughtered hundreds of starving, desperate Sioux who had been herded to the frozen shore of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, the Census Bureau announced the disappearance of a contiguous frontier line for the first time in American history. Manifest Destiny had run out of room, and the American Empire … Continue reading Born at Wounded Knee