Wounded Knee massacre: more bodies?
p2pnet news view | Cool:- Regular p2pnet readers will recognize the name Durova, aka Lise Broer.
She’s a Wikipedia editor with a special interest in images.
“I’ve been known to mess with a pic or two myself and Durvova and I subsequently exchanged a few emails on the subject,” I posted in April, 2008.
But her interest goes deeper than making spoof pics and she believes she may have spotted something which’ll be of significant interest to anyone who’s studying, or has studied, the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Says the Wikipedia »»»
[...] on December 29, 1890, 500 troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry, supported by four Hotchkiss guns … surrounded an encampment of Miniconjou Sioux (Lakota) and Hunkpapa Sioux (Lakota). The Army had orders to escort the Sioux to the railroad for transport to Omaha, Nebraska. One day prior, the Sioux had given up their protracted flight from the troops and willingly agreed to turn themselves in at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota. They were the very last of the Sioux to do so. They were met by the 7th Cavalry, who intended to use a display of force coupled with firm negotiations to gain compliance from them.
The commander of the 7th had been ordered to disarm the Lakota before proceeding. During the process of disarmament, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote refused the order to give up his rifle because he did not understand the order to disarm. This set off a chain reaction of events that led to a scene of sheer chaos and mayhem with fighting between both sides in all directions.
By the time it was over, more than 200 men, women, and children of the Lakota Sioux had been killed. Twenty-five troopers also died during the massacre, some believed to have been the victims of “friendly fire” as the shooting took place at point blank range in chaotic conditions. Around 150 Lakota are believed to have fled the chaos, with an unknown number later dying from hypothermia.
But when Lise restored a 118-year-old photograph of the murders, stored in the Library of Congress archives, she found human remains she says curators had mislabeled ’scattered debris of camp’.
“The bodies of four Native Americans lay partially wrapped in blankets,” she stated.
The pic on the right shows detail from restored version: a face in profile, and a hand.
“You can imagine that among a collection of 14 million items here, there are a lot of secrets waiting to be uncovered!” – she says in Wikipedia News and Notes.
JN
(Cheers, Lise)
February , 2009
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February 19th, 2009 at 1:50 am
A disgusting bit of American “manifest destiny”.
A sheer stark example of genocide and ethnic cleansing……….
It’s no better than Nazi Germany and the holocaust or the disgusting spectacle of slavery and black people and the US civil war.
Just think how much of a mess that got left behind in collateral and property damage in Iraq from George’s Bush’s bullshit war in Iraq.
Just think war profiteering is a growth business now days………..