WICHITA NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, KANSAS

" redskins"
A Sentence of Death

"The Shame of Public School Education" a photo essay

"STEALING FROM A CORPSE"

Taking the religious symbols of the Indian People for souvenirs and personal gain is an American Tradition

"... P.S. I sent you today the only 'Trophy' of the recent battle that I have been able to procure." -from a private letter to his wife, John Vance Lauderdale, attending US Army surgeon, massacre at Wounded Knee December 29, 1890

 

"Indian Relic" Collecting from the Dead

The man at the center of the photo below in front of the horse has taken moccasins and other "Trophies" from the dead.

The clothing which are religious symbols were stripped from the bodies of Sioux laying 4 days dead in the snow at Wounded Knee Creek.
The clothing of dead Indian children was a special prize to be sent home.

In the four days the bodies lay in the wasteland, drawn by the blood of over 300 corpses,
the coyotes had eaten on the flesh.
They took the smaller, lighter bodies of children off to safer ground to tear apart. They took what they wanted, they took what they could get away with.
That is the way of the animal.

Moccasins of the Dead
	Later, the man who took the moccasins from the feet of a dead ghost dancer will try them on, to pretend to walk like the people he has just slaughtered. Perhaps, he will shuffle dance, whoop and laugh at their "barbarian" ways. Perhaps he will give them to his children so they can wear the clothes of the redskins in their play and they can make believe with real redskin clothing. They will doubtless be pulled out for display for many years. WILL HE TELL OF THE 200 CHILDREN AND WOMEN LYING BEFORE HIM IN THE SNOW? WILL HE TELL OF THE 100 MEN WHO HAD NO WEAPONS? "HOW DID YOU SHOOT THE REDSKINS, PAPA, did you get me some moccasins?"

These US soldiers went home to towns like Wichita, Kansas and Cleveland, Ohio, and many others.
36 years from this day when 200 children and women lay dead in the snow,
they are declared mascots.
This 22 year old man holding the moccasins was then 58 years of age.

The religions of the Indian People were declared against the law and everything was taken as curios to be bought and sold in the market place.

 

SHOES OF THE DEAD "My son will like these"     Jewish families are still trying to recover their stolen property hoarded in Swiss Banks, and places through out the world. They remember the horrors of religious persecution and governments that believe they can keep the plunder taken from the dead.	Germans sorting through the shoes of Jewish victims killed at Auschwitz. Like all of the property of the victims these shoes were sent to Germany. The Nazis took the lives of Jews because of their religious and ethnic heritage. Nazis took what they wanted, they took what they could get away with. That is the way of the animal.
On August 3, 1997 the Government of Italy returned to heirs, 5 crates of jewelry taken from victims of the holocaust.	A spokesman for the Italian government said, we encourage all governments to quickly return the property of Jews taken in the Holocaust.
U.S. NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES & REPATRIATION ACT	Italy did not take the property and remains of the bodies of Jewish people, put them in museums, then tell Jews they should be honored to be mascots in Italy.
	HOW FAST MUST GENOCIDE WORK IT COURSE TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR THE HIDEOUS CRIME IT IS?

 

This man did not die half naked in a South Dakota winter his clothing was taken for a trophy after he was shot. The great grandchildren of these dead Sioux are told by the great grandchildren of these armed men that it is an honor to be their mascot. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

IS THERE HONOR IN THE PRACTICE OF TAKING NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS FOR CURIOSITY, FUN OR PROFIT?

No other race who continues to struggle against genocide has been made to put their living children on the mascot block.

DO YOU JOIN WITH THE ANIMALS WHO TAKE INDIAN RELIGION FOR ANYTHING YOU CAN?

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"STEALING FROM THE DEAD GIVES BIRTH TO STEALING FROM THE LIVING"

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