In 1889, a Paiute Indian named Jack Wilson decided he was the Messiah and created a new movement called the Ghost Dance Religion. It was based on hating the White Man.** Several of the early converts were from the Sioux…

Seems like another case of rewriting history to me.

A lot of that going on these days.

The ghost dance was about enjoying once again life as it used to be, as opposed to life as it had become as a result of the white man.

Given the treatment they had received at the hands of white men to that date, I don’t think that we can blame circa 1889 Sioux for wishing the white man gone by any Deus ex machina, be it by the contrivance of magic or war.

That the ghost dance foretold reverses of white man’s dominance was not so much the desired ends of the ghost dance, but rather a necessary means to the desired end of a native race once again enjoying pre-European culture and existence. I doubt if we were in there place we would have wished for anything different than they wished for.

That having been said, Mark Anthony Rolo is wrong to cite long-past events—such as those which occurred in the 1800’s—as tools to drive race relations in 2005.

And to your point, history is written by whom? Scars and suspicion abound. They are attached to the latest calumny. Wounded Knee must therefore be the last.