Native news sources:
It’s a Dakota Akicita facing a Dakota firing squad instead of giving up his Wapaha (Headdress of feathers) while boarding school children are forced to watch.
I wonder about those boys that are watching and the men that are shooting as much as I wonder about the proud man with the strong braid and his kids and his mama.
And one to the right;a non native directing it all
The hardships his family and fellow warriors faced without him…
But also the stories those little boys had to tell themselves to endure watching a man murdered in front of them.
How this moment trained them to be killers….
How this moment informed the life partners they chose and the ways they parented.
This is a moment of generational trauma in formation. For the firing squad too.
Colonization privileges the colonizer and their dependents but not forever. There is a price for all of us.
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