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So I’m watching “Incident At Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story”, and they have this interview of this guy (I’m assuming former member of the FBI, they don’t give names) where he says “Two of our men were down, you know. Two of us, and that’s gonna cause emotions to run high”, and this is his justification for going in full fucking force to the Pine Ridge Reservation. He says that with everyone watching because “two of our own were down” they had to turn it up a notch. No fucking mention of the endless list of Native Americans that were killed by either the FBI or the BIA police.

HONORING THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WOUNDED KNEE INCIDENT THE CLASSICS | LIFE AT PRISONER OF WAR CAMP #344 Miss Rosen for Huck Online

Established in 1899, Prisoner of War Camp #334 (aka Pine Ridge Reservation) is home to the people of the Oglala Lakota tribe, and has been ever since they were forced to abandon their native lands by the U.S. government. It was also the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, the largest slaughter of innocent men, women, and children on American soil – a fact the often gets ignored when the U.S. media reports on mass shootings.

On 29 December, 1890, troops from the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment went into the South Dakota camp on a mission to disarm Black Coyote, a deaf man, while he was performing a ritual called the Ghost Dance. The rifle in question went off, and the U.S. soldiers charged the Lakota people, who had been disarmed. By the time they were done, some 300 innocent Lakota men, women, and children had been killed.

The U.S. government awarded Medals of Honor to 20 soldiers in the massacre at the time – only to express “deep regret” for the slaughter a century later, as reported by The New York Times in 1990.

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