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On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation And told them they'd be escorted to Pine Ridge Reservation. The next day they arrived at the creek, near Wounded Knee Soldiers began to disarm them, what they saw as a war party More reinforcements arrived under Colonel James Forsyth And surrounded the reservation with their military might. Many Lakota handed over their guns but reluctantly No one foresaw that the disarming would end in tragedy A deaf Lakota tribesman by the name of Black Coyote Hadn't heard the order to disarm and was seized by the cavalry. He didn't want to give up his gun because he'd paid a lot of money And what followed became known as the battle of Wounded Knee Soldiers tried to seize his rifle but it discharged in the struggle An elder was performing a Ghost Dance ; the soldiers feared trouble. By then many Lakota tribesmen had now been disarmed And as tensions began to rise the soldiers became alarmed They opened fire on the Lakota tribesmen shooting them dead And the hard ground where they fell began to turn a bright red. A few Lakota still had their guns and they returned fire But the soldiers kept firing and the death toll rose higher The Lakota were outnumbered; they didn't stand a chance Against heavily armed soldiers who started to advance. Some unarmed Lakota ran, but there was no cover or trees Soldiers then turned their Hotchkiss guns on a row of tipis Where mother's and children lived, and who were slain brutally Mounted soldiers then chased those, who'd fled out to the prairie. They were shot down as they ran and were shown no mercy Officers lost control of their men who acted with impunity Any wounded they came across were shot in the head When the shooting was over there was three hundred dead. Over thirty soldiers were killed too, caught in the crossfire With witness accounts stating many were killed by friendly fire The unarmed Lakota Indians met with an untimely death Old men, mothers and children who hadn't posed a threat. A young boy in hiding was told that he'd be taken to safety But when he appeared he was shot down, without any mercy This was a genocide of the Lakota and not even a fair fight And I can't help but wonder how those soldiers slept at night. Some mothers were found dead with babies still alive But with the temperatures dropping many didn't survive Over the next few days, all the frozen bodies were recovered Then thrown into a pit and with earth they were covered. Twenty soldiers involved were awarded medals of honour For the massacre of innocents in the Lakotas darkest hour The government at the time were succeeding in their mission To violently subdue all Native Americans, into submission. Written on 22 July 2021.

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The Genocide At Wounded Knee

On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation And told them they'd be escorted to Pine Ridge Reservation. The next day they arrived at the creek, near Wounded Knee Soldiers began to disarm them, what they saw as a war party More reinforcements arrived under Colonel James Forsyth And surrounded the reservation with their military might. Many Lakota handed over their guns but reluctantly No one foresaw that the disarming would end in tragedy A deaf Lakota tribesman by the name of Black Coyote Hadn't heard the order to disarm and was seized by the cavalry. He didn't want to give up his gun because he'd paid a lot of money And what followed became known as the battle of Wounded Knee Soldiers tried to seize his rifle but it discharged in the struggle An elder was performing a Ghost Dance ; the soldiers feared trouble. By then many Lakota tribesmen had now been disarmed And as tensions began to rise the soldiers became alarmed They opened fire on the Lakota tribesmen shooting them dead And the hard ground where they fell began to turn a bright red. A few Lakota still had their guns and they returned fire But the soldiers kept firing and the death toll rose higher The Lakota were outnumbered; they didn't stand a chance Against heavily armed soldiers who started to advance. Some unarmed Lakota ran, but there was no cover or trees Soldiers then turned their Hotchkiss guns on a row of tipis Where mother's and children lived, and who were slain brutally Mounted soldiers then chased those, who'd fled out to the prairie. They were shot down as they ran and were shown no mercy Officers lost control of their men who acted with impunity Any wounded they came across were shot in the head When the shooting was over there was three hundred dead. Over thirty soldiers were killed too, caught in the crossfire With witness accounts stating many were killed by friendly fire The unarmed Lakota Indians met with an untimely death Old men, mothers and children who hadn't posed a threat. A young boy in hiding was told that he'd be taken to safety But when he appeared he was shot down, without any mercy This was a genocide of the Lakota and not even a fair fight And I can't help but wonder how those soldiers slept at night. Some mothers were found dead with babies still alive But with the temperatures dropping many didn't survive Over the next few days, all the frozen bodies were recovered Then thrown into a pit and with earth they were covered. Twenty soldiers involved were awarded medals of honour For the massacre of innocents in the Lakotas darkest hour The government at the time were succeeding in their mission To violently subdue all Native Americans, into submission. Written on 22 July 2021.