#siouxymca

A few more memories popped up in the #packingandpurging-some @siouxymca & @americorps #changemakers on the #CheyenneRiverReservation, c. 1998. What a great group of people, not sure I have them all here in IG. (Tag if you do) But you might recognize #MarcellaGilbert from @warriorwomenfilm #SiouxYMCA #DupreeSD (at Dupree, South Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzHR9iVAIJI8aU3fqlLjgHIngaI_0YkkJVamiQ0/?igshid=egeiwpktso2a

Another stain on the American story of manifest destiny and the genocide of #Native people takes place on the morning of 29 December 1890, when the Spotted Elk (Big Foot) band of 350+ are #murdered at #WoundedKnee in present-day #SD. 20 congressional medals of honor are handed out to the troops. - - Today, the #BigFoot riders again make their way into the massacre site after riding the route of the band from that day. We remember and we work for better relations, better understanding, for a recognition of the truth and for the #nationofempathy that is needed. - - In a bitter twist of history, a surviving family member of the #DakotaWar and #Mankatohanging, Ohiyesa or Dr. Charles A Eastman, whose family converted to Christianity, attended to the few survivors of the massacre. Ohiyesa was the primary founder of the #SiouxYMCA throughout the northern plains and into Canada, the only truly indigenous YMCA. The HQ Sioux YMCA exists to this day in Dupree, SD on the #CheyenneRiverIndianReservation - - Something I wrote a decade ago in contemplating #WoundedKnee and that particularly brutal period of colonialism and conquest by the United States: - —- 1890 Tumble the regime Tumble the kingdom Tumble the rule Follow none A king, a queen, a chief, all rulers no more It was your manifest war Take them down, take the crown - Of gold, of sage, of righteousness you made Not everyone has complied Not everyone has forgotten There will always be reminders Never deeply hidden Colonize, brutalize, magnify the charter You may still believe your lies 1890 never dies (c) 2007 S. Sarkozy-Banoczy (19 Aug) (at Wounded Knee Massacre)