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Theresa
Bumppo's Tavern Proprietress
USA
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May 17 2002
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 Posted - November 19 2002 : 07:41:47 AM
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This was in my Saturday's newspaper. Some of you may already know about this:
Nearly 70 years after his death, the remains of Black Horse, a Cheyenne Indian warrior and ancestor of Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, will be made whole. Bone shards stored by the military for more than a century will be buried at his grave site in Montana this weekend. Black Horse fought with Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The shards of Black Horse's bones were removed from his leg in 1879 by an Army surgeon treating a gunshot wound. The government has an estimated 200,000 sets of American Indian remains.
This absolutely blows my mind.
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Pushmataha
Pathfinder
USA
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October 20 2002
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 Posted - November 19 2002 : 6:51:44 PM
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Doesn't suprise me in the least.. Some day they'll probably try to put all of us (Indians) in a museum case somewhere .. The sad thing is my people believed that if your body wasn't whole you couldn't go to the happy hunting grounds.. |
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"I think the Spirit, is the one thing we have to rely on. It has been handed to us as a live and precious coal. And each generation has to make that decision whether they want to blow on that coal to keep it alive or throw it away...Our language, our histories and culture are like a big ceremonial fire that's been kicked and stomped and scattered... Out in the darkness we can see those coals glowing. But our generation, whether in tribal government or wherever we find ourselves--Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole-- are coal gatherers. We bring the coals back, assemble them and breathe on them again, so we can spark a flame, around which we might warm ourselves." Gary White Deer, Chickasaw 1994 |
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Indian warrior's remains to be buried
