Hello blog readers! Today we went to the sombering site of the Massacre of Wounded Knee. We learned a plethora of interesting facts and noteworthy information from Cathy who has helped out with Savanna in recent years when travels had led us there. She discussed with us the history of the site and what happened through the eyes of the Native Americans. She pointed out several sites where the Native Americans camped when they first arrived on the site, pointed out where the shooting began and gave us the grim details of how the bodies were disposed and how the soldiers conducted themselves during this massacre. With this experience in mind all of the students made their way up the hill, we immediately fell silent and were in awe of the graves. It was a really different expeirence for most of us on entering this grave, looking at how graves where arranged and how the people on the reservation adorn their people’s graves with stones and prayer cloths. Naturally, as design students everyone was sketching the mass grave monument dedicated to the souls who died in the massacre. Of this site Cathy had to say, how the the sadness of this incident has really clung to their people but they wouldn’t want to be anywhere else but the reservation because this is their home. This comment really set the tone for the day. All in all though it was a great learning experience looking into another culture that seems foriegn to us, but is found in the heart and soul of America.
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