Big Foot Memorial Ride — Stories — Bob Keyes: Storyteller & Writer

A special land, people — and ride

Social Justice, Indigenous IssuesBob KeyesDecember 30, 1990Wounded Knee, Badlands, South Dakota, Big Foot Memorial Ride, Sitanka Wokiksuye

Weather, spat bring bitter taste to tribute

Mean blocks Mickelson at cemetery

Social Justice, Indigenous IssuesBob KeyesDecember 30, 1990Wounded Knee, Sitanka Wokiksuye, Big Foot Memorial Ride, Reconciliation, Big Foot, Little Eagle, South Dakota

Proud rider inspired by spirit of the eagle

Social Justice, Indigenous IssuesBob KeyesDecember 30, 1990Wounded Knee, Sitanka Wokiksuye, Big Foot Memorial Ride, Reconciliation, Big Foot, Little Eagle, South Dakota

Riders reach their goal

250-mile trip ends at Wounded Knee

Social Justice, Indigenous IssuesBob KeyesDecember 26, 1990Wounded Knee, Sitanka Wokiksuye, Big Foot Memorial Ride, Reconciliation, Big Foot, Little Eagle, South Dakota

Riders spend holiday away from home as memorial trip nears end

Dean Ruillard gave up a Christmas morning at home to be with his extended family in the mighty Mako Sica, the spiritual place known to non-Lakotans as the Badlands.

Social Justice, Indigenous IssuesBob KeyesDecember 26, 1990Wounded Knee, Sitanka Wokiksuye, Big Foot Memorial Ride, Reconciliation, Big Foot, Little Eagle, South Dakota

Trail riders fight cold, but go on

BRIDGER — Two dozen weather-whipped Wounded Knee Memorial Riders riders paused Saturday on the first sunny day of the past week. Wounded Knee ride on track to end Friday

Social Justice, Indigenous IssuesBob KeyesDecember 23, 1990Wounded Knee, Sitanka Wokiksuye, Big Foot Memorial Ride, Reconciliation, Big Foot, Little Eagle, South Dakota

Riders start journey today at Sitting Bull death site

LITTLE EAGLE — Indians from across South Dakota began arriving Friday in Little Eagle to pay tribute to Sitting Bull, the great Sioux chief who was killed near here 100 years ago today.

Social Justice, Indigenous IssuesBob KeyesDecember 15, 1990Wounded Knee, Sitanka Wokiksuye, Big Foot Memorial Ride, Reconciliation, Big Foot, Little Eagle, South Dakota

Riders to honor those killed at Wounded Knee

Two weeks from today, 300 men, women and children will saddle up their horses near Bridger and begin the final leg of a five-year journey honoring their Indian ancestors slain at Wounded Knee a century ago.

Social Justice, Indigenous IssuesBob KeyesDecember 9, 1990Wounded Knee, Sitanka Wokiksuye, Big Foot Memorial Ride, Reconciliation, Big Foot

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