Tag Archives: Wounded Knee

Photo essay: An Oceti Sakowin road trip with Nick Estes’ book, ‘Our History is the Future’

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I just got back from a road trip through the lands of the Oceti Sakowin. My traveling companions were my 29-yr old son and Nick Estes, in the sense that we had his 2019 book Our History is the Future: … Continue reading →

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White backlash: The Rittenhouse debacle from a Native perspective

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Stephen Carr Hampton

During the George Floyd protests, twenty-five people were killed. Most of them were Black Lives Matter protesters. They were not killed by the police, but by white supremacists who traveled to the protests from out of town for the sole … Continue reading →

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Paha Sapa, Custer’s Last Stand, Mt. Rushmore, and Wounded Knee: A history of the Black Hills in one diagram

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

A lot of stories are linked to the Black Hills; a lot of dots connect there. Here’s a very abbreviated history. CLICK TO ENLARGE See this blog post for more background on the Great Sioux Nation, both past and present. … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged Black Hills, Crazy Horse, Custer, custer's last stand, grant, greasy grass, great sioux nation, Great Sioux Reservation, Hearst, kkk, lakota, Mt. Rushmore, Paha Sapa, peltier, Sioux, Sitting Bull, six grandfathers, the black hills are not for sale, treaty of 1868, Wounded Knee | Comments Off

Lost Bird died in the last pandemic

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In 1920, Lost Bird, aka Zintka, aka Zintkala Nuni, died in the Spanish flu pandemic in the Bay Area of California. We still don’t know her real name. Wounded Knee, 1890 After the massacre, Hugh McGinnis, of the same 7th … Continue reading →

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Movie review: “From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A reporter’s journey”

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In 1973, Kevin McKiernan was a young white photographer from Minneapolis looking for a job. When AIM took over Wounded Knee, he headed to South Dakota and managed to get a press pass. When the US military excluded all media … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged "from wounded knee to standing rock", aim, Anna Mae, Aquash, documentary, FBI, film, Leonard Peltier, McKiernan, movie, Oglala, Standing Rock, Wounded Knee, Yurok | 2 Comments

White supremacy and the vulnerability of peaceful villages

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In recent days, Donald Trump has threatened domestic violence against “the left”. In an interview with Breitbart, he said, “I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged 2016, 7th Cavalry, Black Kettle, camp grant, Cheyenne, chief joseph, county, Custer, election, ghost dance, lakota, looking glass, marias, Massacre, peaceful, peaceful villages, Piegan, Sand Creek, Sioux, spotted elk, Steve King, trump, tucson, washita, white supremacy, Wounded Knee | Leave a comment

Totality Visions

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Stephen Carr Hampton

“It’s so beautiful.” My voice was uncontrollably shaking and tears were welling up in my eyes. Like Jodie Foster at the end of Contact. From atop a sagebrush bluff in eastern Oregon, we felt the day cool and the bright … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged #SolarEclipse2017, 1890, eclipse, ghost dance, nevada, Paiute, unity, visions, Wounded Knee, wovoka | 1 Comment

They brought a missile launcher and machine gun to Standing Rock

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Back in December, I detailed how the law enforcement at Standing Rock is coming from the reddest counties in the nation, and that they are using the conflict as an opportunity to test their new US military equipment. Now it seems they’ve … Continue reading →

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Bernie at Pine Ridge

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Bernie Sanders visited Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota yesterday and was received with great affection. Pine Ridge, with a life expectancy lower than Haiti’s 49 years, is one of the poorest places in the Western Hemisphere. If there … Continue reading →

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On this date… December 29… Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Dakota

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Stephen Carr Hampton

A lot happened on December 29th. In 1790, President George Washington told the Seneca that, at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the US government assured them that “in future you cannot be defrauded of your lands. That you possess the … Continue reading →

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