Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Black Elk on Wounded Knee




Black Elk


"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, 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...”



Buffalo in Colorado. Photo by Darla Sue Dollman.






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