Wounded Knee Massacre. Corrido de Bigfoot, Johnny Cash. Spotted Elk. Moni ihkala woju

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BIGFOOT

Big chief Big Foot,
Your Minneconjou band
Is mourned and remembered here
In South Dakota land.

Big Foot was an Indian chief
Of the Minneconjou band,
A band of Minneconjou Sioux
From South Dakota land.

Big Foot said to Custer,
"Stay away from Crazy Horse."
But Custer crossed into Sioux land,
And he never came back across.

Then Big Foot led his people
To a place called Wounded Knee,
And they found themselves surrounded
By the 7th Cavalry.

Big chief Big Foot,
Rise up from your bed,
Minneconjou babies cry
For their mothers lying dead.

Big Foot was down with a fever
When he reached Wounded Knee;
And his people all were prisoners
Of the 7th Cavalry.

Two hundred women and children
And another hundred men
Raised up a white flag of peace,
But peace did not begin.

An accidental gunshot
And Big Foot was first to die;
And over the noise of the rifles
You could hear the babies cry.

Big chief Big Foot,
It's good that you can't see
Revenge is being wrought
By Custer's 7th Cavalry.

Then smoke hung over the canyon
On that cold December day.
All was death and dying
Around where Big Foot lay.

Farther on up the canyon
Some had tried to run and hide;
But death showed no favorites,
Women, men, and children died.

One side called it a "massacre,"
The other a "victory,"
But the white flag is still waving
Today at Wounded Knee.

Big chief Big Foot,
Your Minneconjou band
Is mourned and remembered here
In South Dakota land.

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[Taste4Truth]

that is my great great grandfather. My name is Calvin Spotted Elk. Although I appreciate the intent of the song, people should be aware that Chief Bigfoot was not his name. It was a derogatory name given to him that unfortunately stuck with him through history.

My grandfather's name was Spotted Elk. We come from the Moni ihkala woju (sometimes pronounced Miniconjou) Planters by the Water. I never was able to thank him for his song honoring my grandfather.

[paurakemantarraya]

@Taste4Truth Honor a quien honor merece

[nywg]

The two Men Walking with Mr. Cash are Calvin Jumping Bull

(that's Calvin Speaking With Mr. Cash ) and his Father Harry.

[paurakemantarraya]

guau!, que pequeño es el mundo

[AcePilot101]

Imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism.

U.S. policy towards the Native Americans was genocide. It was a consciously racist plan to "clear" the land for European settlers.

[gordojr328]

blacks thought they had it bad

[SpecialEffects9]

Revenge is the only word, 'that' does not stand in military terms, as a military action, therefore; when a military unit commits revenge, there 'is' no honor. Revenge is the only word you could put on this stupidity of killing old women, men and children. What honor is there in such an action? Therefore, rescind the Medals of Honor for the Wounded Knee Massacre (battle, in military terms).

Read the epic novel Rescue at Pine Ridge, 5 stars Amazon Int., the story of the revenge and redemption.

[poshportia62]

The 7th Cavalry was entrapped the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. The 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers rescued the 7th Cavalry.

Read the novel, Rescue at Pine ridge, the story of the rescue of the famed 7th Cavalry by the Buffalo Soldiers, and visit website; rescue at pine ridge. com. The novel embodies Native Americans, Outlaws and Buffalo Soldiers, in the days of the Native American Wars with the approach USA. Story is about, brutality, compassion, reprisal, bravery, heroism and gallantry.

[nightrider836]

@bibiJ63 The creator cried. The men who slaughtered these unarmed natives must surely be paying for eternity. There were many times when the troops disarmed the

indians then turned their guns on them. They were ignorant barbarians.

[bibiJ63]

I wonder what all those men got?For slaughtering and murdering those poor dear people!When something happens where 3 or 400 or more people get killed, like in Bosnia,or The Twin Towers of New York or anywhere else on this planet, the whole world cries,and all World-Leaders are suddenly there?

What about THIS?What happened at Wounded Knee,and all other places,

against the Indian people?Where were all those world-leaders?

Great government the U.S. had back then,real heroes!Monsters! Demons!

[selenadelos]

20 Medals issued for this act "Wounded Knee" and we still have served in their army to fight their wars we like it or not are not Americans and could it be clearer I think not, I look at our Native Veterans as fools and shame on them for wearing the Squatters uniform or saluting that Colonial nasty lie that is America and her flag which is not fit for us to wipe our ass with.

[selenadelos]

We allow that dam cross over the graves of our dead, am I missing something or is that just a straight out mockery of us all ?: Also spare me the comments that our "Great Spirit or Grandfather" is one in the same as the nasty depraved Ethnic Cleanser god of the bible or his Public Relations ploy Jesus " His son the trojan Horse that wants us to except get people to embrace his sick sad dad through him !