Wounded Knee Massacre Quotes

“I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream . . . the nation’s hoop is broken and scattered.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks

“He was the last maker of traditional Sioux flutes, which all ended in a bird’s head, the sound coming out of the open beak. He himself could play the flute beautifully. These were instruments for courting, making the love music. Uncle Fool Bull died in 1975, almost one hundred years old. He still remembered the massacre of some three hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, in the winter of 1890.”
― Mary Brave Bird, Ohitika Woman