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                      1. Preparing to talk about the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee in my intro #anthropology class. Some things I'm re-learning...
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                      Genocide is always done on purpose, and the process is always more blatant and morally horrifying than you can remember.
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                    Genocide is always accompanying by horror and refusal by some in the perpetrating society and resistance in the society under attack.
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                  Genocide of Native Americans was conducted under the watchful eye of newspapers and magazines who sent photographers to Army camps and reservations.
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                Congress' demands for land, Indian agents afraid of rebellion, and missionaries demanding heathenism be stamped out all drew in the US Army to massacre Lakota civilians at Wounded Knee.
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              After US soldiers massacred civilians, they looted their camps and bodies for cultural and biological "souvenirs."
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            The commanding officer at Pine Ridge self consciously saw himself overseeing a race war.
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          Some Protestant missionaries who received the wounded saw the massacre of hundreds as a chastening punishment that would redeem the Lakota from heathenism and rebellion.
          oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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        Before and after the Ghost Dance upheaval, many Americans understood that conquest and hunger underlay this Native American religious revival.
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      Ethnographer James Mooney's herculean odyssey of data collection on the Ghost Dance remains one of the most subversive uses of a government grant ever.
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    Ella Deloria's Speaking of Indians, written at a time when Lakota defeat seemed inevitable and irreversible, is nonetheless a triumph of witnessing.
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      When teaching genocide, it's essential to not simply end at the moment of defeat. Especially when a culture lives on.
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