Wounded Knee

The federal government, at the initiative of the President should buy, expropriate, or acquire the site of the massacre at Wounded Knee and turn it into a monument. The United States has since its inception carried out a racist Holocaust against Native Americans, broken the treaties it made, confiscated land, destroyed a culture, and herded free and ancient peoples into concentration camps called reservations where they reside to this day. These crimes against humanity are a record of shame that stains the flag and identity of the United States. To allow it to be commercially developed and not preserved as a memorial would be yet another stain.