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Events->March/Rally: American Indians embark on annual Big Foot ride

Posted on Sunday, December 18 @ 22:08:28 PST

This year's edition of the Big Foot ride began Thursday from a camp on the Grand River where American Indian Chief Sitting Bull was killed 115 years ago. In two weeks, riders plan to arrive at the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Stumble It!

Those who have been on the ride before say it is among the saddest and most fulfilling experiences of their lives.

By the time they reach Wounded Knee on Dec. 29, the 23 riders that left Thursday will be more than 125 strong, organizers say.

Sina Shaw has been on the ride before. "Our leaders fought so hard. We do this so our children's children's children know we're worth something," Shaw said.

Included among the riders are a half-dozen children.

The memorial ride began in 1986 when Birgil Kills Straight and four other Lakota riders decided to follow the December 1890 trek across South Dakota taken by Minneconju leader Big Foot and his followers.

They fled the Standing Rock reservation when Sitting Bull was arrested and killed and had hoped to spend the winter in safety with the Oglalas in the Badlands. They were intercepted by the Seventh Cavalry outside Wounded Knee, and an estimated 300 were massacred when the encounter erupted into violence.

As the riders left Thursday, each spent a moment at a monument to Sitting Bull. Each rider declared who he or she would ride for, a loved one, or for the Sioux people.

After Sitting Bull was killed, his followers fled to Pine Ridge, more than 200 miles on foot in the cold of early winter. After they arrived, many found death at the hands of the U.S. Army.

The riders who left the camp Thursday will feel some of the cold the original riders felt - even though they have insulated caps, coats and warm food and shelter awaiting them at the end of each day.

Ron His Horse Is Thunder, the new Standing Rock Sioux chairman and descendant of Sitting Bull, has ridden from Sitting Bull's death marker to Wounded Knee every year. But not this one.

His mouth and lip remain swollen from dental surgery. His Horse Is Thunder saw the riders off on their journey.

"You will feel pain on this ride," he told them. "When it is over, you will be wiser. You will be better Lakota."