It’s time for us to stand up for our people.”[Two Native American women are headed to Congress. Five days before the march, President Trump referenced Wounded Knee in a tweet that was meant as a jab against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Warren, who in a much-ridiculed move released a DNA test to prove her Native American roots, discussed her plans to enter the 2020 presidential race in a video last month. People reminded the president that the U.S. Cavalry slaughtered hundreds of Sioux men, women and children during the Wounded Knee Massacre on Dec. 29, 1890. It was an advertisement in Teen Magazine for the American Indian College Fund.

Source: Washington Post January 19, 2019 12:31 UTC