This morning we visited the Wounded Knee Monument. This is where hundreds of Lakota, mostly women and children were massacred by U.S. Calvary in 1890. You might remember this from films such as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Thunderheart.
It is a place that is very humble, with modest earthen graves surrounding a mass grave where many Lakota rest.
We have to remember that the power we have must empower everyone. When power becomes perverted it destroys. It is humbling to know I am sharing capoeira with the descendants of souls that may rest at Wounded Knee. That I am surrounded by ancestors from capoeira and Lakota and our own families.
Axe.
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