Tatanka Iyotaka’s family and other Ghost Dancers had left Standing Rock to seek refuge with their Mnicoujou relatives at Cherry Creek.Īccording 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. Any village near or below 120 points are good targets, along with abandoned villages. So let someone with an army scan the good prospects for farming to see when they come out of the beginners protection. government had ordered all the Chiefs into the agencies as fear of an uprising grew because the Lakota were practicing the Ghost Dance. When the villages around you come out of beginner protection, you want to have a force of spear fighters ready to start raiding them. 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.
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. In December of 1890 Hehaka Gleska and a group of ghost dancers had left the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation shortly after Hunkpapa Itancun Tatanka Iyotaka (Chief Sitting Bull) was killed up north on the Standing Rock Reservation. A roar that reminded onlookers that these bikers rode with a mission – a mission to preserve the memory of the innocent Lakota People who suffered and died on December 29, 1890.Īs they drove onto the Wounded Knee site, echoes of drumbeats reverberated through the hillsides stained with the bloodshed of the followers of Hehaka Gleska (Spotted Elk) also known as Si Tanka or Big Foot. WOUNDED KNEE – On Saturday evening, August 5, one could hear the low throaty growl of motorcycle engines coming from a distance.Īs the riders approached the Wounded Knee massacre site the sounds of their engines turned to a roar.
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