Whitestone Hill and Wounded Knee remembered as sad episodes in regional history.
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Mike Jacobs | ×
Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist.
GRAND FORKS Last week’s activities remembering the destruction of Greenwood, the black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., known as “Black Wall Street,” which occurred 100 years ago, should call to mind examples of what have been called “massacres” in our own region.
The most notorious of these occurred at Wounded Knee, S.D., on Dec. 30, 1890. U.S. troops attacked a band of refugees fleeing from the Standing Rock nation, which extends into North Dakota, after the killing of Sitting Bull on the Grand River, just inside the one-year-old state of South Dakota.
Whitestone Hill and Wounded Knee remembered as sad episodes in regional history.
Written By:
Mike Jacobs | ×
Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist.
GRAND FORKS Last week’s activities remembering the destruction of Greenwood, the black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., known as “Black Wall Street,” which occurred 100 years ago, should call to mind examples of what have been called “massacres” in our own region.
The most notorious of these occurred at Wounded Knee, S.D., on Dec. 30, 1890. U.S. troops attacked a band of refugees fleeing from the Standing Rock nation, which extends into North Dakota, after the killing of Sitting Bull on the Grand River, just inside the one-year-old state of South Dakota.
It started out so innocently. I was reading the May 2009 edition of Backpacker magazine and came across an article titled Americaâs Best Day Hikes. Under the Midwest Prairie suggestions was a 9-mile hike in the Sheyenne National Grassland (SNG) with the following description.
âPristine tall-grass prairies offer a unique peek into Americaâs scenic past. This North Dakota gem offers that, plus a well-maintained section of the North Country Trail. As you hike through the towering grasses, look for the rare regal fritillary butterfly and threatened western prairie fringed orchid. Start at Sheyenneâs eastern trailhead (near Lisbon, North Dakota) and follow the rolling path west to the Iron Spring Creek oasis-a perfect lunch stop with flowing water and shade from cottonwoods. Turn back here.â