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They rode with a mission
To pay homage to the ancestors who died at Wounded Knee
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Native Sun News Today Assistant Editor
WOUNDED KNEE – On Saturday evening, August 5, one could hear the low throaty growl of motorcycle engines coming from a distance.
As the riders approached the Wounded Knee massacre site the sounds of their engines turned to a roar. 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.
As 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. 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.


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