And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: http://www.indiancountry.com/NP25.HTML Oomaka Tokatakiya to begin Big Foot ride By Karen L. Testerman Today staff Northern Plains Bureau LITTLE EAGLE, S.D. - For the fifth winter, young horseback riders are making a 300-mile trek across South Dakota in memory of Chief Big Foot and his people. Oomaka Tokatakiya - Future Generations, began the crucial two-week ride Dec. 15, in memory of more than 350 Lakota, mostly old men, women and children, massacred by the U.S. Army at Wounded Knee in 1890. Chief Big Foot and his Mniconjou and members of Sitting Bull's Hunkpapa bands, are ancestors of countless Lakota still living on the Standing Rock, Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge Indian reservations. Many riders and supporters are descendants of those who trekked across the land to their peril in Wounded Knee. "I did not know then how much was ended, " Black Elk said of the massacre. "A people's dream died there in the bloody mud. [Now] the nation's hoop is broken and scattered." At the urging of many Lakota elders, the Oomaka Tokatakiya have picked up the people's dream and the ride is their effort to mend the Sacred Hoop of the Lakota people. The young riders will lead their mounts down the same valleys and across the same rolling plains along which Chief Big Foot's people and members of Sitting Bull's bands fled. Most were half-naked and on foot, in fear of retribution from the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry, hoping to find refuge at the Pine Ridge Agency. The spiritual journey will end at Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 28, as did the lives of those who were slain there 100-years ago. <<END EXCERPT <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
