On Dec 29 1890 nearly 300 Lakota people were massacred by U.S. Calvary at Wounded Knee. Black Elk, a Lakota holy man, was a survivor of the massacre.
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He wrote, “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.” Later he became a Catholic catechist, now candidate for canonization.
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