{"id":2137,"date":"2020-10-26T19:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T19:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=2137"},"modified":"2020-10-26T19:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T19:51:21","slug":"black-elk-15","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/black-elk-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Elk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Black Elk Continues:<\/em> “Men and women and children were scattered all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

over the flat at the bottom of the hill where the soldiers had<\/p>\n\n\n\n

their wagon- guns, and westward up the dry gulch all the way to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the high ridge, the dead women and children and babies were scattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I saw this I wished that I had died too, but I was not<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sorry for the women and children. It was better for them to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

happy in the other world, and I wanted to be there too. But be-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

fore I went there I wanted to have revenge. I thought there might<\/p>\n\n\n\n

be a day, and we should have revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the soldiers marched away, I heard from my friend, Dog<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief, how the trouble started, and he was right there by Yellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bird when it happened. This is the way it was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the morning the soldiers began to take all the guns away<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from the Big Foots, who were camped in the flat below the little<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hill where the monument and burying ground are now. The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

people had stacked most of their guns, and even their knives,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by the tepee where Big Foot was lying sick. Soldiers were on the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

little hill and all around, and there were soldiers across the dry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

gulch to the south and over east along Wounded Knee Creek<\/p>\n\n\n\n

too. The people were nearly surrounded, and the wagon-guns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

were pointing at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some had not yet given up their guns, and so the soldiers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

were searching all the tepees, throwing things around and pok-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ing into everything. There was a man called Yellow Bird, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he and another man were standing in front of the tepee where<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Foot was lying sick. They had white sheets around and over <\/p>\n\n\n\n

them, with eyeholes to look through, and they had guns under<\/p>\n\n\n\n

these. An officer came to search them. He took the other man’s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

gun, and then started to take Yellow Bird’s. But Yellow Bird<\/p>\n\n\n\n

would not let go. He wrestled with the officer, and while they<\/p>\n\n\n\n

were wrestling, the gun went off and killed the officer. Wasichus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and some others have said he meant to do this, but Dog Chief<\/p>\n\n\n\n

was standing right there, and he told me it was not so. As soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as the gun went off, Dog Chief told me, an officer shot and killed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Foot who was lying sick inside the tepee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many were shot and killed right there. The women and children<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ran into the gulch and up west, dropping all the time, for the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

soldiers shot them as they ran. There were only about a hundred<\/p>\n\n\n\n

warriors and there were nearly five hundred soldiers. The war-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

riors rushed to where they had piled their guns and knives. They<\/p>\n\n\n\n

fought soldiers with only their hands until they got their guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dog Chief saw Yellow Bird run into a tepee with his gun, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from there he killed soldiers until the tepee caught fire. Then he<\/p>\n\n\n\n

died full of bullets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a good winter day when all this happened. The sun was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

shining. But after the soldiers marched away from their dirty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

work, a heavy snow began to fall. The wind came up in the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a big blizzard, and it grew very cold. The snow drifted<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

deep into the crooked gulch, and it was one long grave of butch-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ered women and children and babies, who had never done any<\/p>\n\n\n\n

harm and were only trying to run away.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

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Black Elk Continues: “Men and women and children were scattered all over the flat at the bottom of the hill where the soldiers had their wagon- guns, and westward up the dry gulch all the way to the high ridge, the dead women and children and babies were scattered. When I saw this I wished … 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-2137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137","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=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}