{"id":27524,"date":"2022-08-24T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=27524"},"modified":"2022-08-24T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:42:29","slug":"native-sun-news-today-memorial-ride-honors-lives-lost-at-wounded-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/08\/24\/native-sun-news-today-memorial-ride-honors-lives-lost-at-wounded-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Memorial ride honors lives lost at Wounded Knee"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Wounded<\/a>
More than a hundred men and women marched carrying tribal flags and staffs, some donning war bonnets, decked out in their biker leathers and emblems, all resolute to the mission of paying homage to the ancestors through prayer and ceremony for the Wounded Knee Memorial Run. Photo by Native Sun News Today<\/figcaption>\r\n
They rode with a mission <\/div>\r\n
To pay homage to the ancestors who died at Wounded Knee <\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, August 24, 2022<\/div>\r\n
By Ernestine Anunkasan Hupa <\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Today Assistant Editor <\/div>\r\n
nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nWOUNDED KNEE \u2013 On Saturday evening, August 5, one could hear the low throaty growl of motorcycle engines coming from a distance.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n As the riders approached the Wounded Knee massacre site the sounds of their engines turned to a roar. A roar that reminded onlookers that these bikers rode with a mission \u2013 a mission to preserve the memory of the innocent Lakota People who suffered and died on December 29, 1890.

<\/P>\r\nAs they drove onto the Wounded Knee site, echoes of drumbeats reverberated through the hillsides stained with the bloodshed of the followers of Hehaka Gleska<\/em> (Spotted Elk) also known as Si Tanka<\/em> or Big Foot. In December of 1890 Hehaka Gleska<\/em> and a group of ghost dancers had left the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation shortly after Hunkpapa Itancun Tatanka Iyotaka<\/em> (Chief Sitting Bull) was killed up north on the Standing Rock Reservation.\r\n

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Native bikers carry flags from the Kul Wicasa Nation, Potawatami Nation, Iroquois Nation, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Lumbee Nation in the Wounded Knee Memorial Run. Photo by Native Sun News Today<\/figcaption>\r\n

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Riding to honor the ancestors, representing the Navajo Nation, were Thomas and Freda Tsosie bikers from Arizona and Ray and Lavina Benally from Church Rock, New Mexico. Photo by Native Sun News Today<\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nThe U.S. government had ordered all the Chiefs into the agencies as fear of an uprising grew because the Lakota were practicing the Ghost Dance. Tatanka Iyotaka\u2019s family and other Ghost Dancers had left Standing Rock to seek refuge with their Mnicoujou relatives at Cherry Creek. \r\n

<\/P>\r\nAccording to many oral accounts, the Ghost dancers then left to join the Oglala Ghost Dancers, who were held up at Stronghold Table in the Badlands. But they would never make it as they were intercepted by Colonel Forsythe and the Seventh Cavalry who had been camped at Red Cloud Agency for two weeks awaiting word of movement of the Ghost Dancers.

<\/P>\r\nAs the Wounded Knee Memorial riders thundered onto the Massacre site, they carried flags representing their respective Tribal Nations, including the Lumbee Nation of North Carolina, the Potawatomi Nation of Shawnee Oklahoma, the Iroquois Nation of New York, Kul Wicasa from Lower Brule, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, the Oglala Lakota Nation and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.\u00a0

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