Harney’s 1855 Little Thunder massacre killed close to 70 Brulé people

Evidence

“There was a grandma there. That grandma had her ten-year-old grandson with her. She said to him, ‘Stay here, don’t come out yet.’ And she laid her shawl over him and hid him in the bushes by the tall grass. They started shooting down the people then. And when she was shot, she threw herself on her shawl on top of that little boy. That way she hid him. That little boy, he was my grandfather.” The oral history is passed on, as Rosalie retells the story. “He remembered his grandmother’s blood dripping through the shawl onto him. He said he stayed there until there was no sound. He and the surviving members went back to Pine Ridge on foot. Close to 70 people were killed there.” — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 776

Categorization

• XREF: The truce-flag violation and federal massacre history connects to ch4’s US breaking truce flags against the Seminoles — a recurring doctrine-of-conquest pattern. — connects to: Generational trauma makes 1997 buffalo slaughter replay 1855 massacre — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 778