maxcozmicDec 30, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Today is the 133-year-anniversary of Wounded Knee Massacre. The US Government took their land, broke a treaty and guarantee to give them food and supplies, then sent the U.S. Army, who killed 300 Lakota including 60 women & children😓

The US Govt then:
•Awarded 20 medals of honor to the soldiers guilty of genocide
•Refused to pay reparations or build a memorial
•Waited 100 years to apologize

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Show threadಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)Dec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid For far more stories like this, read "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. It is *despicable* how we, as USians, have treated the original inhabitants of the US. The US only exists because of treachery, deceit, and genocide.
Show threadFarooq Karimi ZadehDec 30, 2023

@chiraag @QasimRashid

Yeah but let's don't forget the upside of #US and how several smaller countries decided to form a "union" because they are stronger together.

I wish with my heart that #Muslim countries, #Sunni and #Shia together could form such a union one day. Amen! :)

Show threadSmerks1109Dec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid The movie Lakota Nation vs. the United States details this story. Absolutely worth watching down to the very last scene.
Show threadKatDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid As an Aussie not familiar with the true (not Hollywood versions) of American Indian history, I first read about this massacre by reading 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee' book by Dee Brown.
Even though that was many years ago, I could never forget the absolute horror & deliberate destroying of a wonderful culture & peoples. Also, of course, the British settlement of Australia nearly wiped out the First Nation's people here, too.
Show threadDebbie WadeDec 30, 2023
@katktr @QasimRashid you should read "killers of the Flower moon" too. Historically accurate.
Show threadKatDec 30, 2023
@DSWadeLPC @QasimRashid Thank you I will.
Show threadDebbie WadeDec 30, 2023
@katktr @QasimRashid happened in the 1920s in Oklahoma.
Show threadNumber1SummerJamDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid Surprised pikachu face when the Native Americans finally faught back https://youtu.be/DgKJ6UTRMJ4?si=4k7uNGcscH7yW3wX
05 Wounded Knee

YouTube
Show threadArtemis13AthenaDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid The truth needs to be told without whitewashing it. As much as it breaks my heart to read these stories, they are a necessary part of the waking up of the American people to the reality of the brutality with which "our" land was claimed.
Show threadPennyAK1Dec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid Dr. Heather Cox Richardson wrote a heart-rending description of this horrible debacle last night in her nightly letter
Show threadسیبزمینیDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid
"The land of the free"
Show threadMark Henry SaftDec 30, 2023

@QasimRashid

Very sad and unforgiveable chapter in American history.

Show threadUncleCharlieADec 30, 2023
@LexTalionis @QasimRashid the US History that Right Wing Republicans do not want our children to read about, as it might make them uncomfortable….
Show threadPaitDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid And you're hoping to be elected by pretending you are the real victim?
Show threadthe gripe ibisDec 30, 2023

@pait sir, sir. can you hear me? what's your name? can you grab both my hands for me? ok, now squeeze.

ok, not a stroke, folks. it's okay, he's just like this

@QasimRashid

Show threadTooty McTootfaceDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid if we are keen to blame the past on the current US, we can at least see that things have radically changed for the better. You know what government hasn’t changed in 100 years? Palestine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
1929 Hebron massacre - Wikipedia

Show threadSmittyDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid I went there and a very long discussion with two women from the tribe about the drugs and poverty situation while being surrounded by dirt bikes and a guy on horseback. Its was one of the most surreal res experiences Ive ever had. And Ive had many.
Show threadReneeVoiceBrandDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid 💔
Show threadRobert TaylorDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid sounds about right. Trump will probably pardon & medal them all too.
Show threadSLCW💥Dec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid It would be a national holiday if the Republicans had their way.
Show threadBruce WoodrowDec 30, 2023
@QasimRashid Heather Cox Richardson also had a very interesting article on this topic this week. I learned a lot.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/december-28-2023
December 28, 2023

On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S. soldiers tried to wrench a valuable Winchester away from a young Lakota man. He refused to give up his hunting weapon. It was the only thing standing between his family and starvation, and he had no faith it would be returned to him as the officer promised: he had watched as soldiers had marked other confiscated valuable weapons for themselves.

Letters from an American