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Here's quote straight from General E.D. Scott.
The First Americans don't remember it like this.
This is how American history remembers it.
"There is nothing to conceal or apologize for in the Wounded Knee Battle - beyond the killing of a wounded buck by a hysterical recruit. The firing was begun by the Indians and continued until they stopped - with the one exception noted above."
"That women and children were casualties was unfortunate but unavoidable, and most must have been [killed] from Indian bullets...The Indians at Wounded Knee brought their own destruction as surely as any people ever did. Their attack on the troops was as treacherous as any in the history of Indian warfare, and that they were under a strange religious hallucination is only an explanation not an excuse."
...excerpts from an official investigation of Wounded Knee initiated at the behest of Congress, written by General E. D. Scott |