Zintkala Nuni - Lost Bird of Wounded Knee

In the 3rd of our Spoken Word series, Millie Chalk reads the tragic life story of Zintkala Nuni - Lost Bird of Wounded Knee

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Whisper n Thunder
• Spoken Word
• Native American
• Wounded Knee
• Massacre
• Story
• Geordie Thunder

[WhispernThunder]

Thank you Millie & Phil - excellent work on a heartbreaking story.

[WhiteStarWoman]

@paazau And with Native families even more so because the family unit is so strong. Your Grandparents are as your parents, your Aunts and Uncles are your parents, your cousins are considered your brothers and sisters, etc. As long as you have a people you are never an orphan.

[Lanthiriel]

I'd like to say as another poster did that this child was not adopted, she was bought. If she had been loved as a daughter, how would her life had turned out? Also that if a child has a loving family no one should take the child away! But if a child is orphaned and adopted by a loving family who embrace the child as their own, it matters not the color of their skin nor their creed.

[akira543]

I hope she has finally found her place with the Great Spirit... when I first started learning about American history in school I was also curious about this little one in the photo, truly sad.

[whitemanrunshim]

I can`t stop looking at this photograph. The eyes of both are telling the whole story.

A victim and a "winner". How empty the look of the girl is. I know this look from children, who had to see and feel violence and only try to survive. It makes we very sad and angry, because within times nothing had changed. This kind of "adoption" even today is a usual weapon and crime to destroy other cultures. Look at the former GDR, even there, it happend. But this knows the reader by hisself.Bye.

[whitemanrunshim]

A very sad but realistic story. Of course all adoptiv-childs have these questions. Who am I? Where are my roots? And they often get problems in their life. But Zintkala Nuni wasn`tadopted, by my opinion, she was robbed and surely found peace only after being burried at Wounded Knee. She had no chance to live among these circumstances and I think she fled into death. Her Ghost, soul and body surely couldn`t stand all this anymore. A very good research from Wispernthunder and Millie. Good luck.

[paazau]

this is truly a sad story. thank you for sharing with us. unfortunately society has not fully progressed from the mentality that thinks a child will be better off with a family of wealth, if the child's natural family 'has so little to offer'. when all can stop judging 'wealth' by material standards and realise the relationships are much more important then the practice of removing children from their families will cease.

[wbworkout]

I have read so much about Wounded Knee and Native American History. It still makes me sad and angry. It's so little known in general but non-Indian people. This is indeed a sad story, so just. The story of how the Native Children in this land fared is indeed tragic. The Residential schools, isolated reservations with no employment for the young or educational opportunities is the tragic story continuing. Slowly it is changing but too slow. Thanks you for the story.

[IChoseTheRedPill]

my heart aches... such a sad story... Mitakuye Oyasin