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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. Toy. Muttering to himself, he softly whispers and calls the monument, “… a George Floyd Moment.” There’s good reason that he wonders why it is still there.