{"id":30347,"date":"2023-01-04T12:42:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=30347"},"modified":"2023-01-04T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:47:58","slug":"native-sun-news-today-wounded-knee-descendants-come-together-on-massacre-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/01\/04\/native-sun-news-today-wounded-knee-descendants-come-together-on-massacre-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Wounded Knee descendants come together on massacre anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\r\nHawk 1890 Wounded Knee Descendants honored newly elected Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out, left, and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Ryman Lebeau on December 3, 2022. Photo by Marlis Afraidolhawk<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
Public meetings discuss Wounded Knee belongings returned to descendants<\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, January 4, 2023<\/div>\r\n
By Grace Terry<\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Correspondent<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nRAPID CITY, South Dakota — A public meeting to discuss sacred belongings recently returned to Wounded Knee descendants took place on December 16, 2022, from 5 PM \u2013 9 PM and December 17 from 2 PM \u2013 9 PM at New Life Church, 415 McArthur St. in Rapid City, SD. At press time, details of the agenda for the 2-day meeting were still being confirmed. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nWounded Knee is the site of an infamous massacre on December 29, 1890, where more than 250 unarmed Lakota men, women, and children were slaughtered by U.S. Army Calvary. A worker in charge of clearing the battlefield stole the belongings from the bodies of the dead, then sold them to a Massachusetts trader who donated them to the Founders\u2019 Museum in Barre, Massachusetts, in 1892. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nAfter decades of negotiations, the museum finally returned about 150 sacred belongings to the Lakota people in ceremonies on November 5, 2022. The collection of belongings includes ceremonial pipes, weapons, moccasins, clothing, and the dried umbilical cords traditionally kept by tribal members throughout their lives. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe items returned to the Lakota people were all authenticated by multiple experts, including tribal experts. They are now in safekeeping at Oglala Community College at Kyle.\r\n

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<\/P>\r\nFor more information about the Rapid City meeting, contact Cedric Broken Nose at 605-441-0600 or email cbrokennose@yahoo.com. Broken Nose is an active member of the Sitanka takini Wounded Knee Descendants Group. Other contacts for the Rapid City meeting are Ted Ten Fingers (phone 605-389-2431) and Mike He Crow (phone 605-389-4914).\r\n

<\/p>\r\nAccording to Ivan Looking Horse (Cheyenne River Lakota Tribe), an active member of the HAWK 1890 Descendants Group, Lakota culture teaches that the spirits of deceased relatives can remain attached to their belongings if there is no proper ceremony to release the souls back to the spirit world to rejoin their relatives. Looking Horse said, \u201cWe only want to allow the restless to rest.\u201d\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe upcoming Rapid City meeting is the third public meeting held to discuss what will happen to sacred belongings now that they are returned to the descendants. The gatherings are a joint effort between the HAWK 1890 Descendants Group in the Cheyenne River area and the Sitanka takini Wounded Knee Descendants Group in the Oglala area. \r\n

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