The nobel savage myth permeates the Left
Wounded Knee has become a byword for awful relationships between native North American Indians and the US government, as well as White racism, colonialism and a bunch of other bad “isms” brought to the New World.
So this review of a new book on the subject, The Legacy of Wounded Knee, is of interest. Just a bit of background first:
The American name “Wounded Knee” referred to the site near Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota where troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry, under orders to disarm a group of several hundred Miniconjou and Hunkpapa Sioux, stumbled into a chaotic fight on December 29, 1890, in which they killed probably more than 150 Indians, including dozens of women and children, and lost 25 men.
But the term did not catch on until a book by that name was published in 1972, with the author, Dee Brown, taking the…
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