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I’ve known this history for 50 years. I read Dee Brown’s book “ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee “ back in the early 1970’s.

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An excellent book. Very well researched.

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I even remember the standoff with the FBI at Wounded Knee in 1973 although I did have to look up what year it happened.I’m a resident of Minnesota but my dad grew up in Martin , South Dakota .My grandparents lived there until they passed away.

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Tragic 💔 So painful to think about and important to remember. Heather Cox Richardson writes every year about this. Thank you for sharing about the annual horseback ride.

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Thank you Auntie 😢 Reading this is beyond heartbreaking- it is not even close to the heartbreaking events that ended the lives of Human Beings. I have always been ashamed of so many things my race has done. The beauty, the importance of the people we have slaughtered. Sadly it is still happening. Maybe not on a scale as this but it is still happening. I just hope I am alive long enough to see the generation who shows all others what is possible.

People like you Auntie are essential because you truth telling is essential. Thank You Auntie ❤️‍🩹♥️❤️‍🩹♥️

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My parents read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee aloud to us five kids as we drove across the country from TN to CA to visit our grandparents. I mostly remember my parents crying and crying reading the stories of the massacre and him peeing off Mount Rushmore and how Teddy Roosevelt defaced that sacred rock face with those heinous dead presidents. And how he called money frog skins. Thank you for sharing this. It’s so heartbreaking 💔

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