Wounded Knee

The red sun cut across the sky like a dull knife where the tears would fall at Wounded Knee Creek on December 29th, 1890, close to 400 Lakota Sioux were resting peacefully on the Pine Hill Reservation in South Dakota. The US Army came to gather them up in a large circle in the middle of the reservation. The Lakota didn't realize they were also being surrounded. Where in the "Dawn's Early Light" the US Army committed the most brutal massacre of Indigenous People in the history of this nation. Without justification, the US Army opened their cannons of M1875Mountain Guns upon the gathered Sioux at a rate of 50-2 pound shells a minute. They didn't discriminate as they killed nearly 300 old men. women and children without mercy. They then left their bodies to become frozen to the Winter's snow. For this massacre of men, women, and children 19 soldiers were given the "Congressional Medal of Honor." This more perfect union which calls itself "Home of the Brave" exposed its ugly underbelly of cold-calculating despicable trait which lingers to this day, deep in the misguided hearts of particular citizens who deem themselves "chosen." " May God have mercy on their hypocritical souls."