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“It is my people who must stand as the shadow that reminds you of your failures. It is our memory that must keep you on the good road. It does you no good to pretend that we did not exist and that you did not destroy us. This is our land, we will always be here. You can no more remove our memory than you can hide the sun by putting your hand over your eyes.”

Imagine your grandma’s skull in a museum exhibit.

“There were little girls playing with dolls and little boys who were just learning to walk. The soldiers killed them all. Then your people had the nerve to talk about massacres by the Indians. Do you know why we ambushed the soldiers? Because we were trying to keep them away from our children and babies and our old people. We had to get to them before they got to our families.”

Correction: Sitting Bull was dragged out of bed and shot in the head. His killer received a medal.

Sitting Bull was the Hunkpapa Lakota leader & expressed profound resistance to the reservation policies/“Agency Indians” who accepted rations and handouts from the U.S. govt. He didn’t believe in signing away land in exchange for material goods.

He was shot in the head by reservation police while protesting

“I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen were worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.”