Wounded Knee Museum Blog

Our new location will feature our friends at Lakota Ways right next to us! We look forward to opening this season and moving forward past the devastating fire we suffered in September. The fire destroyed most of our exhibits and the building, but we are working hard to restore the museum and come back stronger in 2013.

New Location for the Wounded Knee Museum, coming in 2013. This is the new design concept for the museum.

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148 years ago on November 29th, 1864, soldiers led by Colonel John Chivington attacked and slaughtered about 163 peaceful Indians on a government reservation in Sand Creek, Colorado.

Today, many descendants and people affected by the massacre have come forward trying to claim justice for what happened to their ancestors. Many others are just discovering their ties to the event 148 years ago.

Shirley Wells discovered her ties to the massacre in 1990 while researching her family tree. Wells was moved after finding out her relationship to the massacre saying, "It is sad, but it makes me feel good my ancestors would be willing to sacrifice their lives for us," she said. "I know they are in heaven and always watching down on us."

Read more about this from the Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_22280966?source=commented

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Since the Wounded Knee Museum fire on September 2, 2012 we have received very many inspiring words and have been moved by our visitors' comments. None more than the one we recently received from South Dakota:

"Please rethink, re-do, reuse, recycle and replace the museum. It is so important to tell the truth! Truth to those now and in the future generations. The souls that were wrongfully lost in American history cannot be brought back, but the truth of their story can be told. It is only a building, time and money; but, the truth is the 'battle.'"

-T.A. South Dakota

In our photo album on Facebook, you can see some before and after photos of the exhibits of the museum or at the photo album here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151079817970194.422117.167618070193&type=1&l=a2b5db7388 

If you would like to learn more about the museum fire our how you can help with the rebuilding effort, please follow this link: http://blog.woundedkneemuseum.org/p/museum-fire-rebuilding-effort.html


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We would like to thank the Rapid City Journal for their article on the Wounded Knee Museum Fire.

The Rapid City Journal posted an article about the Wounded Knee Museum Fire on September 2 linking to our blog and our YouTube live video of the fire.

If you would like to view this article, please follow this link to the Rapid City Journal website: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/wounded-knee-museum-posts-video-of-fire-that-destroyed-building/article_9938614c-38c5-5f03-917e-d5da2ae23673.html

If you would like to learn more about the museum fire and how you can help, please visit this page on our blog: http://blog.woundedkneemuseum.org/p/museum-fire-rebuilding-effort.html



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