Healing the Wound of Wounded Knee
Leonard Little Finger is the great-great grandson of Chief Big Foot, whose band of Lakota Sioux Indians were killed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.
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Leonard Little Finger is the great-great grandson of Chief Big Foot, whose band of Lakota Sioux Indians were killed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.
Healing the Wound of Wounded Knee follows Little Finger as he repatriates a lock of hair taken from Chief Big Foot's corpse after the battle, from a small museum in Barre, Massachusetts, to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
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Hal Cannon is the founding director of the Western Folklife Center and its famous child, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
Taki Telonidis is Senior Supervising Editor for Reveal , an award winning radio show and podcast that’s dedicated to exposing injustice and holding the powerful accountable.