tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post748455672701958598..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Wounded Knee too sacred for park?Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-4893368445295196582010-09-26T04:30:32.076-07:002010-09-26T04:30:32.076-07:00The main conflict Trimble describes is between the...The main conflict Trimble describes is between the tribal council, which wants to develop the site, and a veterans' group, which doesn't. That's an Indian vs. Indian battle, not a battle with outsiders trying to impose their views.<br /><br />Dealing with federal funding and oversight is a separate and mostly unrelated issue. That isn't what this column is about.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-44224854600115285282010-09-21T16:34:59.149-07:002010-09-21T16:34:59.149-07:00On to some real issues, yes...
There's more t...On to some real issues, yes...<br /><br />There's more than a hint of intrusion with the National Park Service. In the Great Smoky Mountains, they destroyed entire communities. And closer to the subject, the history of Yellowstone's ban on Indians is a matter of record.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-444353501566009372010-09-21T14:41:02.344-07:002010-09-21T14:41:02.344-07:00I can see how the people at the battle site could ...I can see how the people at the battle site could feel about having federal monies being applied there. There always has to be a hint of intrusion and federal input with everything the government spends money on. <br /><br />It always seems that in America, even the dead have no rights, especially natives. Since this site has predominantly soldiers and warriors buried side by side, I say let the locals decide.<br /><br />Why can we just let the dead be at peace instead of always trying to turn something into a tourist attraction which leads to profiteering and vendors, and then carelessness from the rude, trashy and disrespectful nature of visitors and tourists?<br /><br />The place is not a baseball park or an amusement park, its a graveyard and it should be creepy and unsettling, but more than that, it should teach us something about the history of this nation and its people.Burtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-64935065648604141312010-09-21T10:19:26.288-07:002010-09-21T10:19:26.288-07:00I agree with you up to a point (keep what works), ...I agree with you up to a point (keep what works), but I think that they're right not to want to turn it into a tourist site. Little Big Horn battlefield monument is incredibly creepy and unsettling, with its trail winding through (and over) places where the bodies of cavalry and natives had lain broken and bleeding. I felt like I was walking in a cemetery right on top of the graves. I'd imagine the experience of Gettysburg to be something similar. Maybe I'm too sensitive, but I would not want to see Wounded Knee become something similar. Yes we need reminders (constantly, as your posts so clearly illustrate) but if the Lakota don't want a National Park site, they shouldn't be called out by you or anyone else for hanging on to "old-fashioned dogma", as it's their dead who lay buried on the site. Unless I completely misread your comments...Mamalaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02239511661947502942noreply@blogger.com