HONORING THE WOMEN MEMORIAL
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My name is James Hallum and I live on the Santee Sioux Indian reservation in Nebraska and want to tell you a little story and about our upcoming ride and a little on the Santee Dakota Indians.
It is about a people who were traumatized after the 1862 Minnesota uprising. An uprising that was caused by hunger and broken promises. After the uprising there was a lot of sorrow inflicted upon the people from being exiled from traditional homelands , the men imprisoned and then watching 38 warriors hung. Then removed to a far off land where the people died along the way from starvation the elements and sorrow.
I am an enrolled member of the Santee tribe. I have worked within the schools, with the children and have witnessed first hand the devastating effects of historical and intergenerational trauma. I see it in the people and the children in the schools and want to help. I too suffer from the effects and became a alcoholic at an early age but have been in recovery for 28 years now and can relate first hand these effects.
As a people we help each other as best we can and our group wants to help. To us the horse is healing and we want to use them to help heal. This is a much needed event and we wanted to fund the whole event ourselves but havent reached our goal. The event is over 10000 dollars
This is part of the story of the Santee Dakota trail of tears, from the mass hanging of 38 of our warriors at Mankato, Minnesota On December 26th 1862 to June 1st 1863 Fort Thompson on the Crow Creek reservation in South Dakota. The decendants of these survivors of Crow Creek now live there, also on the Santee Sioux Indian reservation in Nebraska, Sioux City Iowa and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Indian reservation in Flandreau, South Dakota and some have drifted back to reservations in other states. Here is our plan.
We the Sacred Horse Society of the Santee, Yankton, Lower Brule, Crow Creek, Sisseton and the Omaha Nations are having our second memorial ride. We have committed ourselves to doing four rides to honor the women. We will be leaving the Santee reservation Nebraska May 25th at 8:00 am and will ride horseback to the Crow Creek Indian reservation. This is 178 miles and we plan on riding for six days and camping out at different locations and to get there at a nearby location on the 30th and have a day of rest and an inipi or sweat lodge ceremony on the 31st.
On the 1st of June we are planning to ride in and have an honoring for the women who endured back then and also for the over 300 children who perished under those harsh conditions. We also want to honor the women and girls alive today for still being the backbones of the nation, for keeping the people together and holding on to our way of life and traditions as best they can in todays society
The date of the June 1st has historical significance to us as it is the day the Dakota people were first brought to Crow Creek in 1863. These were mostly women and children and to them this was their nightmare that was to last for the next three years. Exiled to a place where there were no resources for the people and the land foreign from the woodlands of Minnesota and the result of that was over 300 children dying that first six months from starvation and malnutrition.
Also there was the physical and mental abuse to the women and young girls there. The men were being held in a prison in Davenport, Iowa where they were also dying from hunger and cold. Due to this they could not help feed or protect them from abuse from the soldiers stationed there. This physical and sexual abuse was encouraged to dehumanize the people. The women were also subjected to daily hunger and humiliation just to get food for the children.
We want to honor those women, our grandmothers for what they did, doing anything to try to keep the children alive under such conditions. With nothing available and with what was only by having to do unmentionable things to obtain them.
The people went through so much trauma back then from bounties on their scalps after the war with documentation on this in the Minnesota historical society; 200.00 dollars a scalp man, woman or child back then, to having our warriors hung in the United States largest mass execution, 38 of our warriors who were hung at Mankato, Minnesota on December 26th 1862 the day after Christmas.
Then there are the horror stories of what happened to the people while held at Fort Snelling, Minnesota and Davenport, Iowa. So much trauma with no healing. This is why we are doing this to start this healing.
The ones involved right now are with the Sacred Horse Society, which include myself James Hallum, Perry Little, Jessica Little, Trooper James, Deana James, John Estes, Gerald Zephier, John Beheler and family, Corby Harrison of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Barry Thompson, Belinda Reincounter, Pat Lamere, Bill Wells, Dennis Eagle Horse and family, Claude Two Elk, Jeshua Estes, Kenny Fourcloud , Wilfrid Keeble, Sky Byington, Buck Scouts Enemy, Walt Spirit Eagle, Mike Standing Soldier, Gary Weddell, Noah One Star, Joe and Shane Shields, Roger Head and family, Patty Bordeaux, Pearl Kirkie and family, Kevin Wescott the Nape Duta Drum group, Phil Ross, Verna Round Head, Alvin Long Crow and many many more tribal members from the Santee, Crow Creek, Lower Brule, Yankton, Sisseton, Omaha and other tribal nations.
The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe will feed the people at the memorial which will be held at the old fort site there on the reservation.
This is what we are planning and there is also
ride documentary on this as it was an tragedy that should never be forgotten. It is the story of the Dakota, what really happened, why we are now located in Nebraska, Flandreau and Iowa and other states. There are so many other Dakota out there that know nothing of this terrible time, the ones who fled to Canada, the ones in Sisseton Sd. Fort Totten ND. also the other Dakota spread out all across the plains. .
The children that died there should never be forgotten nor the ones that survived. The 38 Ozuya Wicasta or warriors. The ones that perished at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, Davenport, Iowa and on the Missouri river while being transported to Crow Creek.
We want to invite all who want to be part of this healing process for the people.
Nina Pidamiya na wopida tanka, Thank you much
It is about a people who were traumatized after the 1862 Minnesota uprising. An uprising that was caused by hunger and broken promises. After the uprising there was a lot of sorrow inflicted upon the people from being exiled from traditional homelands , the men imprisoned and then watching 38 warriors hung. Then removed to a far off land where the people died along the way from starvation the elements and sorrow.
I am an enrolled member of the Santee tribe. I have worked within the schools, with the children and have witnessed first hand the devastating effects of historical and intergenerational trauma. I see it in the people and the children in the schools and want to help. I too suffer from the effects and became a alcoholic at an early age but have been in recovery for 28 years now and can relate first hand these effects.
As a people we help each other as best we can and our group wants to help. To us the horse is healing and we want to use them to help heal. This is a much needed event and we wanted to fund the whole event ourselves but havent reached our goal. The event is over 10000 dollars
This is part of the story of the Santee Dakota trail of tears, from the mass hanging of 38 of our warriors at Mankato, Minnesota On December 26th 1862 to June 1st 1863 Fort Thompson on the Crow Creek reservation in South Dakota. The decendants of these survivors of Crow Creek now live there, also on the Santee Sioux Indian reservation in Nebraska, Sioux City Iowa and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Indian reservation in Flandreau, South Dakota and some have drifted back to reservations in other states. Here is our plan.
We the Sacred Horse Society of the Santee, Yankton, Lower Brule, Crow Creek, Sisseton and the Omaha Nations are having our second memorial ride. We have committed ourselves to doing four rides to honor the women. We will be leaving the Santee reservation Nebraska May 25th at 8:00 am and will ride horseback to the Crow Creek Indian reservation. This is 178 miles and we plan on riding for six days and camping out at different locations and to get there at a nearby location on the 30th and have a day of rest and an inipi or sweat lodge ceremony on the 31st.
On the 1st of June we are planning to ride in and have an honoring for the women who endured back then and also for the over 300 children who perished under those harsh conditions. We also want to honor the women and girls alive today for still being the backbones of the nation, for keeping the people together and holding on to our way of life and traditions as best they can in todays society
The date of the June 1st has historical significance to us as it is the day the Dakota people were first brought to Crow Creek in 1863. These were mostly women and children and to them this was their nightmare that was to last for the next three years. Exiled to a place where there were no resources for the people and the land foreign from the woodlands of Minnesota and the result of that was over 300 children dying that first six months from starvation and malnutrition.
Also there was the physical and mental abuse to the women and young girls there. The men were being held in a prison in Davenport, Iowa where they were also dying from hunger and cold. Due to this they could not help feed or protect them from abuse from the soldiers stationed there. This physical and sexual abuse was encouraged to dehumanize the people. The women were also subjected to daily hunger and humiliation just to get food for the children.
We want to honor those women, our grandmothers for what they did, doing anything to try to keep the children alive under such conditions. With nothing available and with what was only by having to do unmentionable things to obtain them.
The people went through so much trauma back then from bounties on their scalps after the war with documentation on this in the Minnesota historical society; 200.00 dollars a scalp man, woman or child back then, to having our warriors hung in the United States largest mass execution, 38 of our warriors who were hung at Mankato, Minnesota on December 26th 1862 the day after Christmas.
Then there are the horror stories of what happened to the people while held at Fort Snelling, Minnesota and Davenport, Iowa. So much trauma with no healing. This is why we are doing this to start this healing.
The ones involved right now are with the Sacred Horse Society, which include myself James Hallum, Perry Little, Jessica Little, Trooper James, Deana James, John Estes, Gerald Zephier, John Beheler and family, Corby Harrison of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Barry Thompson, Belinda Reincounter, Pat Lamere, Bill Wells, Dennis Eagle Horse and family, Claude Two Elk, Jeshua Estes, Kenny Fourcloud , Wilfrid Keeble, Sky Byington, Buck Scouts Enemy, Walt Spirit Eagle, Mike Standing Soldier, Gary Weddell, Noah One Star, Joe and Shane Shields, Roger Head and family, Patty Bordeaux, Pearl Kirkie and family, Kevin Wescott the Nape Duta Drum group, Phil Ross, Verna Round Head, Alvin Long Crow and many many more tribal members from the Santee, Crow Creek, Lower Brule, Yankton, Sisseton, Omaha and other tribal nations.
The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe will feed the people at the memorial which will be held at the old fort site there on the reservation.
This is what we are planning and there is also
ride documentary on this as it was an tragedy that should never be forgotten. It is the story of the Dakota, what really happened, why we are now located in Nebraska, Flandreau and Iowa and other states. There are so many other Dakota out there that know nothing of this terrible time, the ones who fled to Canada, the ones in Sisseton Sd. Fort Totten ND. also the other Dakota spread out all across the plains. .
The children that died there should never be forgotten nor the ones that survived. The 38 Ozuya Wicasta or warriors. The ones that perished at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, Davenport, Iowa and on the Missouri river while being transported to Crow Creek.
We want to invite all who want to be part of this healing process for the people.
Nina Pidamiya na wopida tanka, Thank you much
Organizer
Jimmy Hallum
Organizer
Niobrara, NE
