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A pioneer reflection on Wounded Knee

March 30, 2012

Nebraska settler Jules Sandoz, as recorded in the book Old Jules by his daughter Mari, rode up to the Wounded Knee massacre site when he heard the news that day. This was his response,

There was something loose in the world that hated joy and happiness as it hated brightness and color, reducing everything to drab agony and gray.

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