Images from Wounded Knee
 

The Denver Post has images from Wounded Knee 1890 and 1973. Some are iconic like Spotted Elks body others like US soldiers filling a mass grave I've seen before but I think get less play. Some are pretty disturbing so click with that understanding. They chose not to publish many images of the extreme poverty. Russell Means is in a lot of the photos a guy I once supported for President. I feel like he is as politically confused as me...

Very interesting.

I had no knowledge of the 1973 stuff.

And those tepees are all soot covered at the top. They never look like that in the movies, where they look all clean and new. Of course they would be soot covered.

It was big news in Southern California, It was all over the evening news.The book "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" was practically required reading when it came out.

Yes, a hot topic for months.

I didn't realize that there was infighting among the Native Americans

Oh hell yes. Different Native American tribes had completely different cultures, and several of them had long histories of brutal wars between each other, both before and after the Europeans arrived. They didn't invent scalping just for the white dudes. Same is true of Africa: Europeans came and bought slaves, but they were buying them from other Africans, who had been busy capturing and enslaving each other for centuries as part of tribal warfare. It certainly doesn't excuse the behavior of the Europeans in either case, but the "noble savage" stereotype is pretty much always false.

There always has been.