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A CHILD'S EXECUTION

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"There was one little child, probably three years old, just big enough to walk through the sand. The Indians had gone ahead, and this little child was behind following after them. The little fellow was perfectly naked, traveling on the sand. I saw one man get off his horse, at a distance of about seventy-five yards, and draw up his rifle and fire-he missed the child. Another man came up and said, 'Let me try the son of a bitch; I can hit him.' He got down off his horse, kneeled down and fired at the little child, but he missed him. A third man came up and make a similar remark, and fired, and the little fellow dropped."

Testimony, 1864, Major Scott Anthony First Colorado Cavalry, before the United States Congress, "Massacre of Cheyenne Indians" at Sand Creek, in Report on the Conduct of the War (38th Congress, 2nd Session, 1865) p. 27.

This is a true incident recorded in the time of open hatred for Native American people. This is the attitude of a time that not recognize the Native Americans in any human form. A time filled with calls for genocide against the "REDSKINS". The execution of this child is the history of millions of families across Turtle Island. It is their ancestral history. Their unjust murder is a recorded part of history...

"About ten o'clock in the morning, some white men came. They killed my grandfather and my mother and father. I saw them do it. I was a big girl at that time. Then they killed my baby sister and cut her heart out and threw it in the brush where I ran and hid...I didn't know what to do. I was so scared that I guess I just hid there a long time with my little sister's heart in my hands."

-A "redskin" (Native American) woman of the California area relates her childhood experience, 18th century. (The Native Americans, Turner Publishing, 1992)

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