“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 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. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.”
Black Elk
Slide show photos courtesy “Eyewitness at Wounded Knee,” Nebraska State Historical Society. For additional information regarding the publication “Eyewitness at Wounded Knee,” please call (800) 833-6747.
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