Fourteen years passed since the battle on Little Big Horn, fourteen bloody war years, fourteen years of massacre of Souix tribes. On December 29th, 1890 an elite army unit besieged the camp of the decimated Lakotas at Wounded Knee. Their orders were to arrest the rebellious tribal chief Big Foot, disarm men and prepare the tribe for the transport to the reservation in Omaha. The Indians refused to surrender and the soldiers shot down without warning everyone who had not managed to escape to a frozen prairie.
The history of creating the United States is decades of genocide on Indigenous of North America; genocide that, in effect, has not stopped even now.
Openly racist presidents and war criminals are still celebrated as heroes while Indigenous activists are kept in prison for unfounded charges. And the Indigenous population? They are spread out all over the States or scraping along in the undignified social economic conditions of the reservations.

Winter of 1890
and the last of the free were forced to run
they were cut down on the frozen prairie
in cold blood
the tears still stain the soil
and justice is still undone

So much to offer
so much to give
now subjugated, isolated and, starving,
but still strong they stand.
never give up, never give in

Charles Mike Ray