We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee

@baziz Great song! Pat Vegas the bassist in the band wrote this song w/ a friend of his~ he tells in one interview ~to commemorate the occupation of Wounded Knee by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists in 1973. He said the news was covering it, to paraphrase, very anti-AIM, and he wanted to remind the public of the history of the massacre at Wounded Knee, where U.S. troops killed so many Native Americans. They massacred Sioux too. "We all," certainly means all Native/ Indigenous peoples in the U.S.; since this is how the U.S. was built; upon...

@baziz Great song! Pat Vegas the bassist in the band wrote this song w/ a friend of his~ he tells in one interview ~to commemorate the occupation of Wounded Knee by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists in 1973. He said the news was covering it, to paraphrase, very anti-AIM, and he wanted to remind the public of the history of the massacre at Wounded Knee, where U.S. troops killed so many Native Americans. They massacred Sioux too. "We all," certainly means all Native/ Indigenous peoples in the U.S.; since this is how the U.S. was built; upon the genocide of Native/ Indigenous peoples.

@baziz It's not about either, because there was no concept of "Native Americans" from the perspective of the Lakota people, since tribes treat all foreigners and social progress with rabid disregard. (Hence we can thank evolution and the development of the neo-Palium, alongside civilization, for even the freedom to make posts online, a great deal of which are maintained by servers on the West Coast, which is of course the end of the Oregon Trail and the consummation of Manifest Destiny.) As for the "whole US" (I'm guessing you mean "whole U.S." rather than "us"), that entity as we now...

@baziz It's not about either, because there was no concept of "Native Americans" from the perspective of the Lakota people, since tribes treat all foreigners and social progress with rabid disregard. (Hence we can thank evolution and the development of the neo-Palium, alongside civilization, for even the freedom to make posts online, a great deal of which are maintained by servers on the West Coast, which is of course the end of the Oregon Trail and the consummation of Manifest Destiny.) As for the "whole US" (I'm guessing you mean "whole U.S." rather than "us"), that entity as we now understand it could only have been the product of sacrifices made, such as at Wounded Knee, in order to eliminate the tribal way of life and to attain an ethical, teleological purpose devoid of any further, needless violence. (A perfect parallel would be the character of Gustavo Fring from Breaking Bad and his cold, uncompromising war on the Mexican drug cartels.) The only "we" that could have been referred to here is the Lakota Tribe itself, and as people who inherited a civilized language we have an obligation not to abuse it against its unitive purposes. Most uses of the word "we" are illusory, because only the Individual can truly be said to exist as a sentient phenomenon; his flourishing depends entirely upon the elimination of those oppressive ways of life, such as Fascism and tribalism, that would seek to subvert the Reasoning Intellect to the rule by force. R.G.