Wounded Knee Massacre

The Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890 was the slaughter of over 250 Native Americans, mostly of the Miniconjou people of the Lakota Sioux nation, by the US military at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Although the US government defined the event as a "battle", most of the Native Americans were ill, unarmed, and women and children.

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Ken McMullen

- Ghost Dance

1983

On this day December 29th 1890 the United States 7th Calvary massacred mostly women and children and some men (mostly unarmed) with the Hotchkiss machine gun in South Dakota. The soldiers were spooked thinking they were about to practice the Ghost Dance they murdered Chief Bigfoot. This 9 x 14 ft mixed media canvas I painted to commemorate this and the 1973 AIM battle with the US government at the same location. Many Americans at that time didn't really think any Indians even existed still. The American Indian Movement ( AIM) fought to bring attention to the right of contemporary Indians. They sought for Native rights, the environment and to remove the oppressive hold of christian and government , corporate capitalist control. My painting was initially painted in 1992 and was exhibited at the Korean Embassy in New York City. Later the painting was exhibited at the Kimo Theater in Albuquerque New Mexico at a fundraiser for Native Americans spiritual rights to have sweat lodges in prisons. The Mayor of Albuquerque took offence because of the 2 upside down flags (which means distress in flag etiquette) Today the genocide of almost all living Indigenous peoples of all the major continents continues. A war on people in harmony with nature continues. A new Ghost Dance has been born! #woundedkneemasscre #woundedknee #ghostdance #aim #cheifbigfoot #woundedknee73 #americanholocaust #indianwars #kimotheater #forgottenhistory #mixedmedia #controversialart #indianartists #theusflag #murderedchildren #americanindian #nativeametican #rememberwoundedknee #rememberwoundedknee1890 (at Wounded Knee, South Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmxEXfdO2xI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"You talk about the Lebanon

You tell me 'bout the dawn in Eden

I tell you about the Irish children"

Ooh you talk about South Africa"

Ghostdancing #1 (March 1995) by Vertigo / DC Comics

Written by Jamie Delano, drawn by Richard Case.

Ghost Dance

The Ghost Dance (Spirit Dance) is an expression of rebirth and renewal using the traditional Native American circle dance, first practiced by the Paiute Nation in 1869 and again in 1889 when it was adopted by other Plains Indians nations. US government agents' fear of the dance led to the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.

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Ken McMullen

- Ghost Dance

1983

"You talk about the Lebanon

You tell me 'bout the Dawn in Eden

You talk about South Africa

I tell you about the Irish children"

A1 #1: Ghostdance

by Alan Moore;Garry Leach and Annie Halfacre

Atomeka Press

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