Gregory Smoak

To disarm them.

And the stories from Lakota people is that, you know, one young man who was hard of hearing refused to give up his rifle.

And remember, rifles are critical for survival, for hunting, for life, and they're very expensive.

And in this struggle, you know, that story, at least, the gun goes off.

and then the 7th Cavalry opens fire.

The 7th Cavalry is around them on three sides and fires directly into the village.

Some of the casualties among the soldiers are actually

many of their friendly fire because of the shooting from across that square.

They also employ a light cannon called a Hotchkiss gun and then fire on the people who are fleeing.

And that's where you get those horrific pictures.

That night, Blizzard comes in and, you know, when people go out to bury the dead, you have these horribly contorted frozen bodies and the pictures there and then the picture of filling the

the mass grave of people.

And really the effect of Wounded Knee is to turn the ghost dance movement into this desperate last gasp of a dying culture.

That's the popular perception.

But all of these other things are not

being reported or being seen.

And the survival of the ghost dance after Wounded Knee is not widely understood or reported.

Exactly.

That's, yeah, that's Dee Brown.

I was referring to Utley's Last Days of Soonation earlier, but Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.