If there are racists in South Dakota, Larry Pressler is taking a dig at them. The Independent Senate candidate today announced that his first action if elected would be to sponsor legislation to create an international North American indigenous holocaust…
Posts tagged as “Wounded Knee”
Part Cherokee (or Creek?) and honorary Comanche Johnny Depp may come to the rescue of his Lakota kemosabes on Pine Ridge to save Wounded Knee. Says the UK Daily Mail (via Indian County Today): Such is Depp’s commitment to the…
[Commenter turns columnist! The spirit moves friend and frequent blog conversationalist Shane Gerlach from Yankton to contribute his thoughts on South Dakota's American Indian population. Yesterday I published Part 1 of his essay, listing many of the grim statistics on…
Northern Valley Beacon, Interested Party, and Terry Woster recognize yesterday's 120th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, wherein we conquerors (a word said not with pride) killed 300 more of the conquered. For the 23rd year, Native American riders commemorated…