Wounded Knee, 1890 – 1973 in photos (Graphic)

[OmahaBlueDog]

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2014/01/02/wounded-knee-1890-1973-photos/6496/

(Warning - link is to a site that is graphic-heavy and some may find disturbing)

[pipoman]

1. Having been a photo collector for 30 years

I purchased several Wounded Knee photos taken by Northwestern Photographic Company of Chadron, Nebraska about 20 years ago. At that time they cost me $40 to $100 each, now they sell for $150 to nearly $1000. Incredibly sad depictions and some of the only visual reminders of the actual injustices in the effort to "tame the west".

[Wilms]

4. Bobby Onco, captured in iconic Wounded Knee photo, dies at 63

Robert Charles Onco, a Kiowa Indian from Oklahoma who was active in the American Indian Movement and its role in the 1973 siege at Wounded Knee, S.D., died last week of lung cancer. The Vietnam-era veteran and resident of the Shinnecock Indian Nation reservation in Southampton was 63.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/bobby-onco-captured-in-iconic-wounded-knee-photo-dies-at-63-1.6964610

[liberal N proud]

2. I remember the 1973 standoff

I was a kid in Northwest Iowa and South Dakota was a mere 70 miles away and the local news came from Sioux City, they covered it.

[SamKnause]

3. Thank you for posting.

What a savage history the U.S. has.

Unfortunately, that savagery continues to this very day.


FREE Leonard Peltier !!!!!!!!!!!

[IrishAyes]

7. It seems he was also illegally brought back from Canada when he was supposed to have

safe haven there.

[okasha]

10. I was extremely disappointed

that Clinton declined to pardon him at the end of his second term.

[AnneD]

5. Scrolling through the pictures.....

I was struck by the fact that the shack that folks called home looked exactly like the shack my Cherokee grandparents live in. I remember 1968 well because that is the year my Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles first received electricity in the outreaches of the Nation. They still kept lanterns in the house just in case the power went out.

And chinking the cracks between the boards to keep the wind out. At night we would place quilts on the doorways and sleep in the living room under the potbellied stove. The men would take turns tending the fire overnight.

Russell Means was one of the last great Sioux Chiefs and a free thinking man. I recommend reading his writings. He had many followers in other Nations.

[mahannah]

6. I too remember the '73 "standoff"...

I was on the early shift at a Minneapolis TV station, on my way home, and heard the news on the car radio. I turned around and asked the news director to give me a camera and let me get in before the roadblocks. He said it was just an AIM stunt and would be over before I got there. I had finished reading Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" just two weeks before.

[IrishAyes]

8. Thanks to everyone for everything. Great OP and replies.

[Aldo Leopold]

9. Disturbing, to say the least.

Fuckin A.

[RebelOne]

11. I loved Russell Means. I even joined AIM

even though I have no Native American heritage. But I have always been an advocate of the rights of our Native Americans, and I deplore the atrocities my ancestors did to them in the past.