The traditional narrative
Another perspective
The ``brave men'' of Wounded Knee
Famous Battery "E" of the 1st Artillery. These brave men and the Hotchkiss guns that Big Foot's Indians thought were toys, Together with the fighting 7th what's left of Gen. Custer's boys, Sent 200 Indians to that Heaven which the ghost dancer enjoys. This checked the Indian noise, and Gen. Miles with staff Returned to Illinois.
The victims' perspective
``There was a woman with an infant in her arms who was killed as she almost touched the flag of truce... A mother was shot down with her infant; the child not knowing that its mother was dead was still nursing... The women as they were fleeing with their babies were killed together, shot right through... and after most all of them had been killed a cry was made that all those who were not killed or wounded should come forth and they would be safe. Little boys ... came out of their places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded them and butchered them there.''
-American Horse (1840-1908); Chief, Oglala Lakota
Brian M Napoletano
2011-10-10
