Marvin, a Pima Indian from Arizona, AIM takeover of BIA offices,

Chicago, Christmas Eve 1970

photograph by Bruce Berman ©2009

Dec. 29, 2009 / Wounded Knee Day

This is Wounded Knee Day. It calls for remembrance.

In the 120 year aftermath, the victims of Wounded Knee have still not received  justice, let alone, widespread acknowledgment of the murders of nearly 300 Native American people, murders that capped almost two hundred years of aggression against America’s original residents..

Wounded knee was the end of the mythology of the Good America.  It was the end of any illusion that the Indian Wars were anything other than raw power applied to a land grab.

What was Wounded Knee?