{"id":2057,"date":"2020-09-05T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=2057"},"modified":"2020-09-05T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:48:16","slug":"black-elk-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/black-elk-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Elk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iron Hawk continues:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We stayed there waiting for something and there was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

shooting everywhere. Then I heard a voice crying “Now they<\/p>\n\n\n\n

are going, they are going!” We looked up and saw the cavalry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

horses stampeding. They were all gray horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw Little Bear’s horse rear and race uphill toward the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he got close, his horse was shot out from under<\/p>\n\n\n\n

him, and he got up limping because the bullet went through his<\/p>\n\n\n\n

leg; and he started hobbling back to us with the soldiers shooting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

at him. His brother-friend, Elk Nation, went up there on<\/p>\n\n\n\n

his horse and took Little Bear behind him and rode back safe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

with bullets striking all around him. It was his duty to go to his<\/p>\n\n\n\n

brother-friend even if he knew he would be killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By now a big cry was going up all around the soldiers up there<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the warriors were coming from everywhere and it was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

getting dark with dust and smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We saw soldiers start running down hill right towards us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly all of them were afoot, and I think they were so scared<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that they didn’t know what they were doing. They were making<\/p>\n\n\n\n

their arms go as though they were running very fast, but they<\/p>\n\n\n\n

were only walking. Some of them shot their guns in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all yelled “Hoka hey!” and charged toward them, riding all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

around them in the twilight that had fallen on us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I met a soldier on horseback, and I let him have it. The arrow <\/p>\n\n\n\n

went through from side to side under his ribs and it stuck out on<\/p>\n\n\n\n

both sides. He screamed and took hold of his saddle horn and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hung on , wobbling, with his head hanging down. I kept along <\/p>\n\n\n\n

beside him, and I took my heavy bow and struck him across the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

back of the neck. He fell from his saddle, and I got off and beat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

him to death with my bow. I kept on beating him awhile after<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he was dead, and every time I hit him I said “Hownh!” I was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mad, because I was thinking of the women and little children<\/p>\n\n\n\n

running down there, all scared and out of breath. These Wasichus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

wanted it, and they came to get it, and we gave it to them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from “Black Elk Speaks”, as told through<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John G. Niehardt, author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Islander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iron Hawk continues: We stayed there waiting for something and there was shooting everywhere. Then I heard a voice crying “Now they are going, they are going!” We looked up and saw the cavalry horses stampeding. They were all gray horses. I saw Little Bear’s horse rear and race uphill toward the soldiers. When he … Continue reading “Black Elk”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2057","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2057\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}