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Forum, Jan. 8: Attack on the US Capitol will be Trump’s legacy Published: 1/7/2021 10:00:26 PM Modified: 1/7/2021 10:00:13 PM Attack on the US Capitol will be Trump’s legacy On Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump finally ended up where he has always belonged — on the trash heap of history. His inciting of the attack on the Capitol by his legion of willfully ignorant goons will be his lasting legacy, such as it is. Trump is over. Of course, he will have tens of millions of dollars that he has bilked from the faithful since the election in November, but a lot of that will be consumed by legal f...

Wounded Knee Massacre and the Toy Soldier: A “George Floyd Moment” By: Ken Hamilton While at the American Veterans Monument at Niagara Falls in city’s Hyde Park, Allegheny Seneca Indian and community activist Paul Winnie stands in front of one of the eight small monuments dedicated to American warriors who have been awarded a Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.” That particular monument in which Winnie sadly gazed upon was the one dedicated to then-Niagara Falls resident and US Army Sergeant Frederick E. To...

Context For much of the United States’ period of westward expansion, white settlers’ attempts to claim plots of land were met with fierce and sometimes violent resistance from indigenous peoples. This resistance intensified in the latter half of the 19th century as the U.S. federal government repeatedly signed and violated treaties with various Plains tribal leaders. Most prominent among these were the Sioux Indians, of which the Lakota are a subgroup. The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 established the 60-million-acre Great Sioux Reservation and created agencies to represent the federal g...

Dec 28, 2020 | Filed in News & Features On December 29, 1890, the United States Army killed 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Frank Waln, an award-winning Lakota music artist from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, discusses the 130th anniversary of the massacre and Native representation in the U.S. education system. In this op-ed, Frank Waln, an award-winning Sicangu Lakota hip-hop artist and music producer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, discusses the 130th anniversary of Wounded Knee and the erasure of N...

The first Ghost Dance developed in 1869 around the dreamer Wodziwob (died c. 1872) and in 1871–73 spread to California and Oregon tribes; it soon died out or was transformed into other cults. The second derived from Wovoka (c. 1856–1932), whose father, Tavibo, had assisted Wodziwob. Wovoka had been influenced by Presbyterians on whose ranch he worked, by Mormons, and by the Indian Shaker Church. During a solar eclipse in January 1889, he had a vision of dying, speaking with God in heaven, and being commissioned to teach the new dance and millennial message. Native Americans from many trib...