Turning Hawk was then asked if the women had firearms, and if it were possible for the soldiers to tell the difference between Indian men and women, and he replied: “The women were unarmed, and only blind The future strength of the Indian people, is the saddest part of the whole affair, and we feel it very sorely.”
“If only men had been killed,” said Turning Hawk, “all right we would feel almost grateful for it, but the killing of women, and especially the killing of boys and young girls who are to make up Soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded and butchered them. Little boys and girls not wounded came out of places of refuge, and as
One woman was shot down with her infant as her arms almost touched the flag, and a sad sight then was seen, the mother dead and the innocent child still suckling.īut worse was yet to come, for after this inhuman massacre the cry was raised that all not killed or wounded should come forth and would be safe. As they fled with babes on their backs, several women and children were shot right through, some falling near the flag of truce, and others being despatched as they ran through the circular Soon after the firing began, they said, the soldiers turned their guns upon women in the lodges, standing there under a flag of truce, the result being a general stampede, the men fleeing in one direction and the women In Our Pages 1890: Great Fight at Wounded KneeĪ great fight has taken place with the Indians at Wounded Knee Creek, and there has been much loss of life.
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