After a hiatus, I am starting this blog back up. I have been wrestling with the concept of this blog for some months, and have finally settled on a direction.
So, welcome again!
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Sometimes while doing research, you come across things that make you think. The other day, I came across this little article in the Daily Morning Astorian, dated November 23, 1890. The article states that the Sioux had been warning travelers and settlers to "look out for themselves." The captain of Fort Abraham Lincoln stated that there was no reason to worry. The piece also included a statement from a settler near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, saying, "We are all well and safe. Pay no attention to newspaper reports."
Just a little over a month later, December 29th, was the massacre at Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, led by the U.S. Calvary and leading to the deaths of 146 Sioux.
Finding things like this, randomly, sometimes gives me chills. It's seeing a snapshot of a moment in time in history, and knowing more than everyone else; knowing what is going to happen and how it is so much worse than whomever authored the piece likely anticipated.
These are the things that make history interesting.
Until next time...
